The arrival of COVID-19 was a big interruption, but Gonzalez was soon sketching out ideas and recording demos with bassist Randall Miller and drummer Jacob Tomsky for three months at the since-permanently shuttered Bootleg Theater in LA, which was otherwise closed during the pandemic
Using his own wits, talent, and will he takes control of his own destiny and self-determination, doing so with the kind of flair (including, yes, his crip walking Horse - just watch Broomhilda swoon) that solidifies this as a black experience
Barclay noted: I smoked thousands of candy cigarettes in my youth
Shot in murky shadows, focusing on physical apartment wounds (water stains, paint bubbles, cracks), and jarring sound clashes (garbage trucks, door creaks, lead footed neighbours, outdoor cacophony), "The Humans" is an unsettling horror score full of jump scares that delivers gratuitous verbal violence of the meanest kind: family back stabs