Black Up (Explicit)
Shabazz Palaces
- 16-bit FLAC
2011-11-23
Sub Pop Records
7digital What we said: With Black Up, legendary rock label Sub-Pop have not only lost their hip hop virginity, metaphorically-speaking, they've gone tantric, releasing one of the most innovative rap offerings so far this year. It’s all the work of Shabazz Palaces, a Seattle-based trio fronted by Ishmael “Butter” Butler, previously of Cherrywine and the Grammy-winning jazz-rap outfit Digable Planets. There are nods to Butter’s musical past in tracks like the Flying Lotus-esque ‘Yeah You’ – which splices jazz percussion and brass with glitch-laden R&B – but mostly the outfit favour beds of murky electronics, brutal bass lines and claustrophobic, distorted lyrical flows. Highly impressive.
Track Number | Track Title | Track Length | Track Price/Buy Link |
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1 | free press and curl (Explicit) | 4:16 | |
2 | An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum (Explicit) | 3:15 | |
3 | Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt) (Explicit) | 4:48 | |
4 | A treatease dedicated to The Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 questions, 1 answer) (Explicit) | 2:46 | |
5 | Youlogy (Explicit) | 3:59 | |
6 | Endeavors for Never (The last time we spoke you said you were not here. I saw you though.) | 2:51 | |
7 | Recollections of the wraith (Explicit) | 3:35 | |
8 | The King's new clothes were made by his own hands | 2:07 | |
9 | yeah you (Explicit) | 3:21 | |
10 | Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) (Explicit) | 5:10 |
- Duration:
- 36:08
- ℗ 2011 Sub Pop Records
- © 2011 Sub Pop Records