Album: Stock Child Wonder Artist: Knox Fortune Year: 2020
Kevin Rhomberg or Knox Fortune is a vocalist and producer from Chicago, Illinois. Rhomberg was born and raised on the west side of Oak Park, Illinois and took piano lessons when he was young. This allowed him to have an interest in music production at an early age and after he graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School, he took classes at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois for music production, which would then jumpstart his career as a producer.
Including producing tracks for rappers such as Joey Purp, Kami, Towkio, and Vic Mensa, he also supplied a guest vocal on Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book track “All Night”, which would get him noticed ten-fold and had people on the edge of their seats, looking for a full project by him for months to come.
Luckily for fans of his work, his debut solo studio album, ‘Paradise’, was released in 2017 to decent reviews, all around the seven out of range. Rhomberg would then go almost radio silent until July of 2020, where he would begin releasing singles for his next album, ‘Stick Child Wonder’, the topic of this review.
Knox Fortune’s album is one that describes a venture into love, wanting, and self-expression. The first two tracks ‘Just Enough’ and ‘Come Over’ discuss how much Rhomberg just wants this girl he’s romantically involved with and how he just wants her to come over and visit him because he misses her so much.
The following track ‘Sincerity’ discusses that the relationship he’s in despite being something Knox wants, may not be as sincere as it once was, and thus causing him to become even more introspective.
He then realizes over ‘Compromise’ and ‘Gemini’ that maybe their relationship isn’t as bad as he once thought, and maybe could just use some work. The song ‘Change Up’ describes just that feeling, and the following song ‘Morning Lights’ describes how after all the fixes they go through Rhomberg never wanted to become someone he wasn’t around his partner.
Finally, ‘Static’, describes how his brains felt when he was without her, ‘Shirtless’ and ‘Hideout’ describe both a renewed sexual fondness for each other and the want to run away or ‘hide out’, and the last track ‘Always’ simply ends the album saying how much Knox will ‘always’ love his partner, through thick and thin…no matter what.
As I said previously this album is one of love, wanting, and self-expression, but also one of lost and found love…the process of wanting, and the self-expression that comes with being in that lost and found whirlpool. ‘Stock Child Wonder’ is great for anyone looking for a chill, indie ride through a love story chronicled, and I think you should definitely give it a listen.
Stock Child Wonder gets an 8/10
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