Underground rapper Dream Caster’s new album is strong, but brief.

The 10-track, 16-minute long album, Book of Wood, is mostly a collection of short and less than completely fulfilling songs. The content of each track is not the problem. Instead, the length of the majority of the tracks brings down Book of Wood. 

Still, Dream Caster makes up for this with the quality of each track, with almost every track leaving listeners wanting more from songs like “Pray,” “iPhone,” “Monsters Inc,” and “Black and White.”

The song ‘Pay Phone” is an exception to the entire album, as it features Marlon Dubois and has more of a new gen, emo-pop punk sound. The song is an unexpected curveball: It is a really surprising and refreshing song on an otherwise underground cloud rap album.  

Dream Caster’s flow and annunciation of his lyrics is oddly reminiscent of 700 Dagreez and City of Doves by Black Kray. But Dream Caster doesn’t only derive his flow and sound from Kray, as he uses energetic and pop-like beats that align more with hyperpop than cloud rap.  

So far into 2023, Dream Caster has had a pretty good year. He’s setting a foundation for a possible mainstream career, with Book of Wood easily being his best album so far.