Postmodern attempts at genre defiance have become de rigueur for pop artists today. In a streaming-dominated world where we can type away on our laptops to ambient hip-hop in the morning, sing along to old yacht-rock hits on our afternoon commute, and dance to Edm at night, what other way is there to keep our attention than to try to give us everything everywhere all at once? We’ve gotten a few attempts to do just that in 2023, from Kara Jackson’s quietly rebellious blending of folk and R&b, to Yves Tumor’s kitchen-sink instrumentation, to 100 gecs’s audacious and absurd hyperpop assaults.
Many of the artists who appear on this list, though, no longer seem content to just break down old barriers, as they also seek to shatter interpersonal and emotional ones as well. The oft-cited isolation of modern living, heavily exacerbated by the pandemic, has compelled some...
Many of the artists who appear on this list, though, no longer seem content to just break down old barriers, as they also seek to shatter interpersonal and emotional ones as well. The oft-cited isolation of modern living, heavily exacerbated by the pandemic, has compelled some...
- 12/7/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
Armand Hammer have released their new album, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, today (September 29th) via Fat Possum Records. The New York hip-hop duo comprised of rappers billy woods and Elucid will support the record with an upcoming fall and winter tour.
We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is the duo’s first album since their Alchemist collaboration Haram, one of the best albums of 2021. The 15-track LP features appearances from Moor Mother, Soul Glo’s Pierce Jordan, Pink Siifu, Junglepussy, and more. Ahead of its release, Armand Hammer shared the singles “Trauma Mic,” “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die,” and “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”
In a statement, Elucid described the recording process as “this sort of reverse engineering of talented players who met for the first time in the studio jamming to pre-recorded beats before splintering off into new directions. Being in the room quietly...
We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is the duo’s first album since their Alchemist collaboration Haram, one of the best albums of 2021. The 15-track LP features appearances from Moor Mother, Soul Glo’s Pierce Jordan, Pink Siifu, Junglepussy, and more. Ahead of its release, Armand Hammer shared the singles “Trauma Mic,” “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die,” and “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”
In a statement, Elucid described the recording process as “this sort of reverse engineering of talented players who met for the first time in the studio jamming to pre-recorded beats before splintering off into new directions. Being in the room quietly...
- 9/29/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Open Mike Eagle has announced his new project titled Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering, out August 25th via Auto Reverse. As a preview, he’s shared the latest single, “Wfld 32,” featuring Eshu Tune (the rap moniker of comedian Hannibal Buress). Stream the track below.
Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering follows Ome’s 2022 mixtape Component System with the Auto Reverse. Besides Eshu Tune, it includes features from Young Zee, Blu, and frequent collaborators like Video Dave and still rift. See the artwork and tracklist below; pre-orders are ongoing.
“In the ghetto we never stop toiling! These songs are all fancy ways of saying ‘fuck you’ to people that ignore us and ‘thank you’ to people that care if we live or die!” Mike said in a statement. “Pay close attention to the song titles! This is another triumph of ghetto engineering! I took that cover photo. Thats my mama’s hand!
Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering follows Ome’s 2022 mixtape Component System with the Auto Reverse. Besides Eshu Tune, it includes features from Young Zee, Blu, and frequent collaborators like Video Dave and still rift. See the artwork and tracklist below; pre-orders are ongoing.
“In the ghetto we never stop toiling! These songs are all fancy ways of saying ‘fuck you’ to people that ignore us and ‘thank you’ to people that care if we live or die!” Mike said in a statement. “Pay close attention to the song titles! This is another triumph of ghetto engineering! I took that cover photo. Thats my mama’s hand!
- 8/4/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Ed Sheeran rides the tide on a highlight from his fifth album, Tove Lo delivers a stripped down gem, Lil Baby stays guarded, and electronic music legend Brian Eno shows up twice, once with a rock legend and once with a rising house music star.
Ed Sheeran, “Life Goes On” (YouTube)
Tove Lo, “No One Dies From Love (Stripped from France)” (YouTube)
Lil Baby, “Go Hard” (YouTube)
Bethany Cosentino,...
Ed Sheeran, “Life Goes On” (YouTube)
Tove Lo, “No One Dies From Love (Stripped from France)” (YouTube)
Lil Baby, “Go Hard” (YouTube)
Bethany Cosentino,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
For much of the past decade, Brooklyn rapper billy woods — he stylizes his name in lowercase letters — has reigned as an unlikely hero of left-of-center hip-hop. A protégé of influential Cannibal Ox rapper Vordul Mega, he emerged just as the subterranean New York scene centered around critically lionized label Definitive Jux began to fragment. Unlike many of his peers who disappeared into CD-r obscurity, woods kept grinding with his Backwoodz Studios imprint. His 2012 breakthrough, History Will Absolve Me, arrived just as listeners — prepped by Odd Future, whimsical songwriters like Busdriver...
- 5/4/2023
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
Back when he was moving between Washington D.C. and New York City in the late Nineties and early 2000s, billy woods frequented a Black-owned record shop seeking El-p and Cannibal Ox on wax. “I kept coming in, and checking for it — my homie was really diligent about it,” he recalls now. “I got The Cold Vein. I think I got it on CD at the same time, and it was off to the races.” Soon, the success of The Cold Vein and Mf Doom’s Operation Doomsday inspired woods...
- 5/3/2023
- by Anthony Malone
- Rollingstone.com
New York rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal have tapped Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring for “FaceTime,” the lead single from their upcoming collaborative album, Maps.
Over Segal’s wistful, horn-based production, woods describes his life on the road in vivid detail. “They was goin’ off during Playboi Carti set,” he raps. “Now they in the halls partyin’/ Checkin’ they phones, bass shake the walls/ I’m smokin’ alone in a cardigan.”
Herring provides the chorus on the track, singing about the loneliness of touring: “Continental breakfast, stick and weave, tuck and roll/ I can’t take you with me, but I be on your phone.” Stream “FaceTime” below.
“FaceTime” isn’t the first time that the trio of artists have worked together. Back in 2019, Segal produced Back at the House, Herring’s album under his alternative hip-hop moniker Hemlock Ernst. Separately, Herring was featured on woods’ 2017 track “Illegal Tints,...
Over Segal’s wistful, horn-based production, woods describes his life on the road in vivid detail. “They was goin’ off during Playboi Carti set,” he raps. “Now they in the halls partyin’/ Checkin’ they phones, bass shake the walls/ I’m smokin’ alone in a cardigan.”
Herring provides the chorus on the track, singing about the loneliness of touring: “Continental breakfast, stick and weave, tuck and roll/ I can’t take you with me, but I be on your phone.” Stream “FaceTime” below.
“FaceTime” isn’t the first time that the trio of artists have worked together. Back in 2019, Segal produced Back at the House, Herring’s album under his alternative hip-hop moniker Hemlock Ernst. Separately, Herring was featured on woods’ 2017 track “Illegal Tints,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
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