This is probably my favourite hip-hop album of the year so far: I love how the lyrics just weave in like another instrument. The synthesis of poem and music and rhythm is perfect.
Oh, and you can stream the whole album. Put this on and be swept away.
Shabazz Palaces - good enough to be shrouded in secrecy.
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Monday, 10 October 2011
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Shabazz Palaces - Recollections of The Wraith
Wow. This demands your full attention. The beats are complex enough to stand alone, but the lyrics are fast and smart. This is a new direction for hip-hop, and a statement against all the crowd-pleasers that have dominated since the 90's.
It also sounds like a nuanced response to the nostalgia for 80's hip-hop - there's soul in here but it sounds fresh, beats are squiffy. In short, they just reinvented hip-hop. Get excited.
It also sounds like a nuanced response to the nostalgia for 80's hip-hop - there's soul in here but it sounds fresh, beats are squiffy. In short, they just reinvented hip-hop. Get excited.
Monday, 11 July 2011
Shabazz Palaces - Belhaven Meridian
I know next to nothing about this.
They've got this snazzy (shabazz-y?) website, they've been hyped by Pitchfork, and I still know nothing.
Apparently the mystery is deliberate - an attempt to make the work stand alone and speak for itself. Which it does with style.
I'd never even heard of the film the video references, but it's still stunning. The beats are gorgeous pure-tone tightness, and the lyrics are poetry and prose.
They've got this snazzy (shabazz-y?) website, they've been hyped by Pitchfork, and I still know nothing.
Apparently the mystery is deliberate - an attempt to make the work stand alone and speak for itself. Which it does with style.
I'd never even heard of the film the video references, but it's still stunning. The beats are gorgeous pure-tone tightness, and the lyrics are poetry and prose.
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