A mesmerically smart, articulate, experimental hip-hop LP packed with ideas, samples and slick delivery by the New York rapper aka Billy Woods and guests, interweaving endlessly inventive, dreamlike hazy maze of voices, stories and sounds. also featuring the groundbreaking British jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, hip-hop exchanges also come with longtime friend and collaborator Elucid, as well as Segal, El-P, DJ Haram and Jpegmafia. It’s best to just dive in and explore this extraordinarily imaginative and agile world of industrial sounds, crashing bass, electronica, jazz and more, whether that’s the with more immediately accessible The Gods Must Be Crazy or with a dystopian deep dive into discussing with an AI assistant on Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die. There’s the dissonant Trauma Mic with Pink Siifu, or the mind-boggling “certainty is a circle I don’t believe in” of The Flexible Unreliability of Time & Memory, to the rippling flutes and industrial crashes and whispering surreality of Total Recall or Empire BLVD, all the way to closing track The Key Is Under The Mat. An otherworldly, brilliantly different subterranean adventure in unpredictability and creativity. Out on Fat Possum Records.
See also Billy Woods’ other album from this year, with Kenny Segal, Maps, featuring guests Quelle Chris, Danny Brown, Aesop Rock, and Elucid.
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