FRESH EYES
Floco Torres for Akron Life Magazine
“Torres has over 30 albums, compilations and singles under his belt, including as one-half of the musical duo Free Black! (The project, with drummer-producer Holbrook Riles III, creates music about Black history.) He has become a staple in the Akron music scene, headlining the annual PorchRokr Music and Art Festival with Free Black! this year. His unvarnished authenticity — as heard on albums like 2019’s “West Hill,” a soundtrack to artist Micah Kraus’ exhibit at Akron Soul Train — feels invigorating. Shots ringing like a drumline … Food desert on the east side … City funding gave the peace sign, he raps on “Sounds of the city.”
A FRESH AND HONEST SINGLE FROM FLOCO TORRES
Review of “Crater Lake” by the Recording Artists Guild Digital Magazine
“A new release from Floco Torres brings with it a combination of bright and vibrant, colorful pop and a hip-hop undertone that come together to create an atmosphere and a song that you get to escape into and not really want to leave once you're there.
The "Crater Lake" single is vivid and thick with imaginative production that lets it sway and swell, and wrap itself around you to keep you right where it wants to.”
Derailed Magazine Cover Story
Floco Torres featured in the July Issue of Derailed Magazine
“Over the past couple of years, I’ve just been trying to really in, whether I’m right or whether I’m wrong. I’m gonna lean into how I feel, for better or for worse. That’s kind of worked out for me. I try to just go for it, and be like ‘No fuck that. This is what we’re gonna do.”
