Eleven months is a long time in pop. At the start of 2015, Atlanta singer and rapper Raury Tullis was on many music watchlists because of a brilliant ability to mix and match genres on his Indigo Child release. While that skill is in abundance on his debut album proper, the distinctive ideas and super-confident grandstanding of old seems a mite hackneyed here by comparison by what he know he's capable of doing. When Tullis lets fly, he can still produce the goods such as the sweet folky textures of Kingdom Come or the tough, thumping bass on Trap Tears. Forbidden Knowledge with guest Big K.R.I.T is unfocused as if he can't quite work out the flow of the song within the album's ecosystem. While he's keen to cover a lot of ground, Tullis is not so sure-footed when he hits a pothole.

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