Atlanta singer and hip hop artist TJ Pompeo comes in strong with his debut full length LP Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic. Over the past 3 years, TJ has made some big moves in his career with the drop of his mixtape I’m Perfect, first retail EP Pompeiio, a few free singles here and there, the signing and leaving of Da T.R.U.T.H.’s Mixed Bag label and now the release of this new project here as an independent artist. TJ has over the years shown his lyrical ability when he raps, but he is really more known for his singing throughout CHH and most of his music. In this new project we get a small mixture of both, but he really leans on the side of his singing chops for most of it.
Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic is TJ most ambitious album yet in terms of subject matter and production. The production overall has a very psychedelic feel mixed with a bit of funk. With spacey instrumentals composed of drawn out piano and violin cuts, you get the audible feeling of being stuck inside of an ocean, as TJ brings you along a story of falling in and out of love. This for sure isn’t a Christian album. It’s a group of love songs and breakup songs. Most of them you can sense the biblical ideals that are helping TJ sort through the problems he is going through with this woman, but at the end of the day, it is a relationship themed album. Overall this is a great debut album from TJ and it really establishes himself as an artist. It truly shows he can hold his own and not just be a good feature for a chorus on someone else’s track.
