93 Milwaukee

The most explicitly nostalgic track on "NOT TiGHT," "93 Milwaukee" plants a specific coordinate in time and place — JD Beck's hometown in what would be the year of his birth or earliest memory, a gesture toward origin that reframes the entire album's prodigy-showcase energy. The mood shifts accordingly: the relentless forward momentum gives way to something reflective, a slower tempo allowing DOMi's piano harmonics to linger in the air. There's a melancholy here that feels genuinely felt rather than performed — the particular emotion of looking at where you came from when you've traveled far enough that return is theoretical. The arrangement is more sparse than elsewhere on the record, bass and drums creating space rather than filling it, keyboards making melodic statements and then waiting. It's the track where the technical fireworks are most clearly revealed as being in service of something emotional, not the other way around. Listeners who discovered this duo through viral drum lesson videos might be surprised by this reflective depth — it suggests an artistic range that will sustain a career beyond the prodigy-showcase phase. Play it while driving through somewhere that used to mean something to you.