When it comes to committing to vibrant storylines, you could say Notebook P is content to play the fool. The Randolph artist reprises an old role — what he calls The Fool — in his new serenade “dusk,” which dropped earlier this week (August 8). Just as the evening bridges the gap between the final slivers of sunset and a sweeping blanket of darkness, “dusk” connects Notebook P’s 2020 record A Fool’s Paradise to his forthcoming EP Book of Sun, which both center around this so-called foolish character. His nocturnal narrative switches between freeway lanes and love languages as darkness warms to daylight, guided by a beat from StashtheWave.
“‘dusk’ is essentially a depiction of The Fool’s three love languages, which are physical touch (verse 1), quality time (verse 2), and words of affirmation (verse 3),” Notebook P tells Vanyaland. “Although the project is called Book of Sun, dusk is typically the time of day where those love languages are the most passionate and sentimental for The Fool. Physical touch goes from lust to learning, quality time moves from physical to metaphysical, and words of affirmation turn into aphoristic moral guidelines.”
By the time morning creeps in, The Fool awakens with a new outlook on love — or maybe that’s just a symptom of those “3gs of psilocybin dosage” from the second verse. Who’s to say?
Slip into Notebook P’s sultry “dusk” below.