#Jay electronica album

[prettypiner]

Jay electronica album

#Jay electronica album series#

It’s now available on most streaming services, including Apple Music and Tidal. HipHopDX brings you all the newest Jay Electronica albums, songs, and videos in one place From Jay Electronica news to album releases, we make sure you don't miss a beat. Instead, Jay Electronica went live on his YouTube a little after 11PM EDT to debut the album in lieu of the planned listening parties. Cover art for A Written Testimony by Jay Electronica.

#Jay electronica album series#

It was originally supposed to debut at a series of live TIDAL-sponsored listening sessions in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York tonight (3/12), but those were cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jay Electronica discography and songs: Music profile for Jay Electronica, born 19 September 1976. That Biblical parallel timeline has tightened up a little bit, and it’s now coming out tonight. The 17-track LP also boasts appearances from Offset, Young Thug, Westside Gunn, Rico Nasty, and more. When Jay Electronica announced the album, via his relatively inactive Twitter account, he said that he recorded it over 40 days and 40 nights, starting from 12/26, and that it would be released in another 40 days. IDK Drops New Album USEE4YOURSELF, Featuring DMX, MF DOOM, Jay Electronica & More: Stream. Drumless tracks are commonplace in todays. Samples used include Rihanna, Vashti Bunyan, Brian Eno, Allen Toussaint, and Robert Fripp. In 2007, Jay Electronica uploaded a project called Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) to his Myspace page. He worked closely on the album with Jay-Z - he has verses on most of the songs - and it features contributions from Travis Scott, The-Dream, James Blake, and Khruangbin, and production credits from Hit-Boy, the Alchemist, Swizz Beatz, No I.D., Young Guru, and AraabMuzik. He even once said that he never made one because albums are a “false concept.” But last month, Jay Electronica announced that he had finally completed his debut album. He’d joined Justin Bieber, DOOM, and Chance the Rapper on other tracks before that.Over a decade ago, New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica made a huge splash with “ Exhibit C.” He’s been part of enough songs since then to establish a fanbase, but he’s never released an album, despite several false starts over the years. Last year, Jay Electronica joined Dave East and 070 Phi on the track “ No Hoodie (Nothin’ to Lose),” which benefited the nonprofit Hoodies for the Homeless. Jay Electronica and JAY-Z remixed Drake’s track “We Made It” back in 2014. Jay Electronica Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) Long-delayed and eventually shelved, Jay Electronica’s near-mythical lost album finally sees official release after it was leaked. On February 7, the rapper announced on Twitter that his next album would be out “in 40 days.” Jay Electronica’s only other official release was his 2007 mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), and he had teased a follow-up for more than a decade. The album’s credits reveal samples or interpolations of Rihanna (“Flux Capacitor”), Allen Toussaint, Vashti Bunyan (“Universal Soldier”), Brian Eno, and Robert Fripp (“Ezekiel’s Wheel”). Production credits include Swizz Beatz, Hit-Boy, the Alchemist, No I.D., Young Guru, and AraabMuzik. Listen to A Written Testimony-which features contributions from JAY-Z (on nearly every track), James Blake, Travis Scott, Khruangbin, and The-Dream-below. Jay E’s team was aware of the buy happening and claimed various times within a. More Jay Electronica albums Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) A Written Testimony. After years of waiting, Jay Electronica has finally shared his debut album. Within twelve days, various Jay Electronica fans had completed the funding, and he leaked the album to the public.

[fangomusic]

Noname, Sundial

New music Wednesday

In her latest album after a five-year hiatus, the artist from Chicago fearlessly allocates the responsibility for conflict, pointing fingers at everyone, herself included. Her remarkable lyrical delivery maintains its unyielding quality, yet it flows more like a steady trickle of sweetness than an overpowering attack, especially in terms of sound. The innovative and unsettling production continues to transform, offering a continually expanding array of avenues to achieve auditory euphoria.

[als0als0]

[afrotumble]

JAY ELECTRONICA | Act II: The Patents of Nobility --- FULL ALBUM w/ VISUALS

[notchainedtotrauma]

no name...the superficiality of it all...the violence of it all...Jay Electronica being an antisemitic hateful motherfucker is as surprising to me to as a corpse eventually rotting. What's "interesting" to me is a person that claims to be a communist and has led and created a "radical" book club listening to that verse and still putting it on her album, and then having the audacity to turn off her Instagram comments. Which, as soon as an artist (in any field) shows up with all the right bits of theories and can name all the right thinkers, and can actually define intersectionality, this is when trouble starts. As demonstrated by no name. Also *mimes slicing throat* that dude over there.

[cherrylng]

Muse Disc Guide - Origin of Symmetry [STYLE Series #004 - Muse (August 2010)]

Origin of Symmetry

IN MUSIC

As the band tours the world with their debut album, performs at festivals and opens for their seniors to experience the ‘outside world’, they reaffirm the direction they should be pursuing. In other words, they strengthened Muse's unique character that is unlike any other.

The band's previous album had already developed a distinctive style based on alternative rock, incorporating classical elements and exoticism, but this sophomore album takes it even further, expressing each characteristic in a richer, more dramatic way. The guitar, which is trying to surpass Jimi Hendrix and Tom Morello, is even louder and noisier than on the previous album, while the Rachmaninoff-esque piano on track (3/ Space Dementia) runs wildly in all directions. The band also experimented with new instruments such as the mellotron and the church pipe organ used in the solemn track (12/ Megalomania), resulting in an even richer diversity of sound and arrangement.

The majority of the songs on this album were written during the tour, and many of them were performed live before the album was released through repeated trial and error, reflecting the experience gained through live performances. The more dynamic swings between stillness and movement in (1/ New Born), (2/ Bliss), (4/ Hyper Music), (5/ Plug In Baby) and (6/ Citizen Erased) reflect the band's emphasis on exchanging heat with their audience and the catharsis of ‘building up, building up and then exploding’, which they knew first-hand. It was a natural progression for them. The lyrical themes of the first album were mainly about the pent-up feelings of youth in a small provincial town and the anguish of love, but this album is also characterised by a broadening of the range to include (anti-)religious views and more metaphysical themes.

In the UK in 2000, the debut album [Parachutes] by Coldplay, a leading lyrical band, and Radiohead's electronica-leaning fourth album [Kid A] both reached number one in the UK. The trend towards ‘de-rocking’ was accelerating. This album appeared to stem the tide, reaching Number 3 in the UK and marking an important turning point in the future of UK rock music. —Imai Sumi

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2001 Hit Albums

The best-selling studio albums of the year were Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" and U2's "All That You Can't Leave Behind," both released the previous year, but it was the hip-hop/R&B artists who were generally stronger. For example, JAY-Z's (A/ The Blueprint), now the king of rap, won both the US and UK charts, as did Alicia Keys' memorable debut album (B/ Songs in A Minor) and Destiny's Child's "Survivor" (led by future JAY-Z wife Beyoncé Knowles), both of which were widely received outside R&B listeners. In the meantime, the song was also a big breakthrough in the US. Among the UK acts that also made it big in the US were Gorillaz, a new project of Blur frontman Damon Albarn that took the unique form of a fictional band featuring cartoon characters, and Radiohead, who also enjoyed great success in the US with "OK Computer" and "Kid A". Although they were two completely different types of band, they were received with intelligent and artistic personalities. In contrast, Blink-182, known for its tattoo-covered drummer Travis Barker, recorded a hit following "Enema of the State" with a distinctly American pop-punk feel. Also in the United States, The Strokes, featuring Albert Hammond Jr., the son of singer-songwriter Albert Hammond, broke through the UK. Good Rock'n'Roll was highly praised by discerning adult listeners and critics alike.

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IN LYRICS

In an interview at the time of the release of this album, Matthew said that the lyrics were ‘a mirror image of myself’ and that ‘this is a positive piece of work’. On the other hand, in an interview conducted at the time of the release of 'Absolution', when he was able to look back at the album with some objectivity, he said, ‘It's a projection of my chaotic self at the time’. In the case of 'Showbiz', ‘I’ and ‘you’ could have converged in a delicate romantic relationship, but in the case of this work, ‘I’ tends to try to separate ‘you’ from ‘me’. If you read such a ‘you’ in terms of the extraordinary touring life, music business and social reality…… you can see how lonely and chaotic Matthew himself and his muse were, but he was also conscious of something that was lost in the process.

The ‘you’ depicted in track (8/ Screenager), the quietest number on the album, could be seen as a lost ‘me’ in the sense that it retains its beauty in the past. It would be somewhat sentimental to call it a rite of passage for growth, but if Muse's next leap forward was promised by the fact that they had not lost their ability to look at themselves objectively in the midst of their rock star binge, then the meaning of the song is quite profound, despite the subdued nature of the song.

The song (6/ Citizen Erased), ‘I'm sure I used to be so free’, can also be read as a story about the ‘me’ that is being lost, as it depicts a sense of danger of being tamed by something. However, when examined in conjunction with the title "Citizen Erased" and the illustrations in the booklet that suggest citizens being led into chaos, a worldview similar to George Orwell's "1984" emerges. Looking back on this work, which also shows the budding of a science fiction world, it may have been a drop in the river that would open up towards 'The Resistance'. —Abe Kaoru

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YEAR 2001 January - Mail that was stored in the 'Post Capsule 2001' back at the International Exhibition, Tsukuba Japan in 1985, finally started to be delivered. (T/N: This information is only found on the Japanese language Wikipedia. It's a time capsule of sorts, where people who attended the exhibition will post letters into the mailbox and it will only be mailed out by the post office 16 years later to either their future selves or somebody else. One such example was that of Yasuhiro Nakasone, the Prime Minister of Japan in 1985, who posted a letter to the future Prime Minister of 2001. Yoshiro Mori was the one who received said letter before he was succeeded by Junichiro Koizumi 3 months later.) - George W Bush became the 43rd President of the United States. February - The Ehime Maru sank after colliding with a US Navy nuclear submarine. March - Osaka Universal Studios Japan opens. April - European tour begins. - Junichiro Koizumi became Japan's 87th Prime Minister. May - Sapporo Dome has completed construction. - Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, was founded. June - Sapporo Dome, home of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, is opened. July - "Origin of Symmetry" is released. - Japan tour begins. Live performances are held in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. - Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is released. - Beijing was chosen to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. August - A test aircraft is launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre. September - Tokyo DisneySea opens. - September 11th attacks. The terrorist attacks in the USA shook the world. Four planes are hijacked by al-Qaeda, two of which crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and collapsed both buildings. One crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC, and the other remaining one crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. October - US forces launched the invasion of Afghanistan. - Apple Computer's iPod was launched. November - Second tour in Japan begins. Live performances are held in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. - Suzuki Ichiro, playing for the Seattle Mariners in the USA, won the Rookie of the Year and MVP titles. December - Birth of Princess Aiko.

Translator's Notes: I had to edit some parts of the article, especially with the Year 2001 part covering September. In the article, it was written as "The terrorist attacks in the USA shook the world. Four planes are hijacked by Arab groups", which... yeah, editing had to be done for very good reason there.

[weekend-whip]

Band au!!

The ninja: A VERY popular band with huge turnouts for their concerts. Their music can vary a lot, but they land solidly in the alt-pop/rock area when they aren’t doing any sort of solo acts.

Kai: Basic electric/acoustic guitar, but he’s the lead vocalist and absolutely SHREDS when a song calls for a saxophone. Master of improv and is able to continue on with confidence if something goes wrong at a show. He likes it when he gets the chance to scream and jump.

Music type examples: I/Me/Myself by Will Wood, some of Bleacher’s more popular songs, Grandson, Bruno Mars, and a lot of FoB type-stuff.

Jay: Plays a little of everything, but his one true calling is the main melody on electric guitar. His fingerpicking skills are unparalleled. Girls throw themselves at his feet. It’s so sexy how fast his fingers move. He’ll also record some solo tracks on uke!

Music type examples: Complicated guitar melodies, All Time Low, and for uke think of stuff like ToP’s House of Gold and The Judge. The Orion Experience’s The Cult of Dionysus.

Cole: Bass guitar, and a little slap bass. He CAN NOT improv, he’s too scared to. Out of all of them he practices the most. He can do some solo piano stuff too, but not keyboard. Mostly stays back and lets the others take the spotlight, but when he gets really into it he might go up front and dance around with Kai.

Music type examples: I don’t know a lot of bass-centric songs, but he enjoys a lot of songs like Love Grows Where my Rosemary Grows. Autoheart. IDKHBTFM.

Zane: Keyboardist with experience in violin. When he gets in The Zone you cannot pull him out of it for anything less than the venue being on fire. He enjoys both fast-paced and slower music, and will sometimes join in on vocals.

Music type examples: Jake Wesley Rogers, Golden Hour, Cody Fry

Nya: Drums. She wants to hit things. Smack. Anger management. People are SO into it.

Music type examples: Anything with heavy drums and drum solos.

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Jesse: Up and coming artist who does a lot of stuff with his sister. Can’t play any instruments too well so she makes tracks for him to add vocals to! He opens for the ninja a lot at their concerts.

Music type examples: Jake Wesley Rogers, other stuff you have already talked about, Bruno Mars if he’s feeling confident.

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Olivia: Popular solo artist with a cult following. Leans heavily into the alt-rock and electronica scene. Sometimes she’ll hire the shark army as background players. Dances a LOT.

Music type examples: Paramore, P!atd, All Time Low, Daisy Grenade, K. Flay, and SPECIFICALLY Black Sheep from Scot Pilgrim vs. the World

Antonia/Bridget: Managers for the ninja/Jesse and Olivia respectively. God help them.

Jamie: Stage hand and photographer for both! He focuses too much on Olivia, though. Is it hot in here or is it just him? Has nothing to do with the drop she did while dancing and how she looked into the camera- no way.

Nya: We're really calling ourselves "The Ninja"? Kai: It's quick, it's catchy, it fits nicely on merch!!

Nya: Jay, I need you to stop being so hot while playing guitar Jay: It's not like I can turn it off???? *plays a riff* Nya: Pls your fans are starting to bruise with how hard they're falling at your feet Sunni: *lying on the floor* One more solo please!! I can handle it!!

Cole: All right, guys, let's rehearse one more time— Kai: Oooooor we could just jump onstage and just do whatever!!! The crowd loves spontaneity, that's why Jesse opens for us Jay: YEAH, FREESTYLE! Nya: *loud cacophony of drum slamming* Cole: PLEASE ANYTHING ELSE BUT THAT

Zane: I just think we should be incorporating a lot more violin into our songs— Kai: Zane. We're a pop-rock band. Save it for the solo album. Cole: Well, hold on, maybe it could put some extra spice into our music? Kai: When you can match a violin to my sister's erratic drum playing, then come talk to me Cole: Tch, bet Jay: *popcorn*

Jesse: *coming off from his act* You got a pic of my good side, right?? Jamie: Uhhh— *tries to run, drops several photos of dancing Olivia* W-Wait, I can explain, I— *drops even more photos of closeups of Olivia's smirk* WAIT JUST HOLD ON— Miranda: You had one job, man!!!! Antonia: At least get them autographed so we can sell them Jamie: *dies*

Olivia: —and then I struck a pose and threw him this sneaky little smirk and I thought he was gonna drop the camera, teehee Bridget: Bridget: We're doing a concert, not a runway model show!!! Olivia: I'M MULTITASKING

Nya: ...Do you ever think the band could use more...green? Kai: Not unless I'm wearing it *plays Careless Whisper on sax*

[djhamaradio]

Cosmic Rapp - is that even a thing?

I like inventing my own genres. It’s a thing I have done for a while, reminds me of making cassette tapes from dubbing songs from music from satellite radio stations that were playing music from all over the world, back in Zambia. Cosmic Rapp isn’t a thing but I want it to be. Cosmic music abounds in the world of music collectors and lovers of music that exists outside the bounds of capitalism's omnipresent grip. For Hip Hop it’s a hard thing to be cosmic because cosmic-ness at its core is about sounds that tackle the cosmic expanse. Sounds that abandon the here and now and explore the transcendent. Cosmic jazz, disco, rock, soul, and of course cosmic electronic variations abound. In the case of Hip Hop while the potential exists and have existed in the past think Afrika Bam, often times one of hip hop's strengths is its penchant for groundedness, obsessing about the here and now and never quite speculating or trying to create potential new worlds and realms. The genre's obsession with realness, with grappling with the things of the here and now, grappling with our pleasures and future earthly desires sometimes make it more earthly than cosmic. After much thought though I came up with some caveats mostly in the form of single songs but also projects that completely risk it all and try to tackle broader larger themes. An understandable retort will be to reference all the great underground rap that tackles broader social issues my argument is even the conscious guys tend to be very obsessed with earthly issues or fixing earthly issues. Another critique will be to reference all the mind blowing visuals and sonics of forward thinking acts like Outkast or Missy Elliot & Timbaland and even for those acts they really never dwell in the expanse long enough for me to put them in the cosmic rapp category but they might appear on my list. For this article, my lists will be twofold one will be for x10 cosmic rapp albums and x10 cosmic rapp songs. In no particular order peep the below: x 10 Cosmic Rapp Albums (In no hierarchical order) 1. Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein 2. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus 3. Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst 4. Madvillain - Madvillainy 5. Dalek - From the Fitlhy Tongue of Gods and Griots 6. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up 7. King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader 8. KA - Hermit and the Recluse 9. Fatboi Sharif - Preaching In Havana 10. Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep X 10 Cosmic Rapp Singles (In no hierarchical order) 1. Mach Hommy - G.A.T I 2. Hermit and the Recluse - Golden Fleece 3. Armand Hammer - Woke up and asked Siri 4. Billy Woods - Asylum 5. Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers 6. MF DOOM - CELLZ 7. Jay Electronica - Dimethylryptamine 8. Nas - Fetus 9. Madvillain/Quasimoto - Shadows of tomorrow 10. Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy

[jacobwren]

“She's not trying to be a martyr to unreasonable levels of decency in the face of adversaries, nor is she aimlessly skipping into combativeness for attention. You can feel her deliberating, even about how to follow the advice of Sun Ra — to make a mistake and do something right. On the third track, "Balloons," there's some consensus that she does exactly this by collaborating with controversial rapper Jay Electronica. The song holds the album's swingingest hook and mourns the risk in advance. "Why everybody love a good sad song?" It's a ballad against ballads, and it makes sense that she hosts a tragic hero. "She's just another artist selling trauma to her fanbase." The offended might miss how meta this is, how invested in the impossible wish of rehabilitation. Electronica enters as Lazarus, a risen corpse, as self-aware as he is full of hubris and attack. Neither rapper comes to redeem the other but the foiling that ensues makes for one of the most gorgeous duets in recent memory. It's OK to be unapologetic, I want to say, and to refuse to negotiate trauma through hate, for the span of the song. This is a performance. It's Revolutionary Theater, in the sense Amiri Baraka, also a fount of controversy at times, declares in his poem "Black Art": "Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked to the world! ... Clean out the world for virtue and love, Let there be no love poems written until love can exist freely and cleanly." We can't expect a universe that comes into being through the black mirror to be coded for the sensibilities of white liberals and conformists. This is the prevailing controversy within our expectations of Black music, and especially hip-hop in this middle age: It's not considered offensive when it's denigrating Black life, but any other offenses are egregious.” - Harmony Holiday, Noname's 'Sundial' pursues a hip-hop revolution

[ibhokhwe]

remember when Jay Electronica came to Johannesburg and recorded this with The Bullitts and LeTonya Givens and then just never released it and also disappeared for like 10 years only to return with a fantastically mediocre album where Jay Z was doing most of the heavy lifting.

[chimeraan]

It is kind of wild that Noname has continued to be championed by music journals even though she released an antisemitic song in "Balloons".

The guest verse on the track from Jay Electronica (who once called himself 'Jaydolf Hitler') is pure antisemitism to the extent of bringing up the Rothschild conspiracy and referencing the leader of the Nation of Islam Farrakhan (who is a piece of work for a million reasons but chief amongst them being a massive antisemite). One of her songs is in P4K's top ten best songs of the year and her album (which the song is on) is 13 in the top 50 of the year.

Just don't fuckin read Pitchfork

[jenkinstheartis]

Noname Sundial

August 11, 2023 | 11 songs ; 32 minutes

so lovely, makes me feel black, pink and pretty. album cover looks ai generated? why?

she’s honing her sound now, perfecting it might i say!

★ = faves

one.black mirror: 8 out 10

so smooth, such a smooth way to pull me in. speaks to me in riddles. even smoother on the way out! sweet lil introduction, i always feel like she’s introducing herself to us at the beginning of her albums.

"am i supposed to feel this different? / like my rent's paid? / the devil's dead"

two.hold me down: 8.7 out of 10

(feat. Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation)

nothing could compare to a black choir. her voice and alliteration, she kinda bragging on her skills, she's just too good sometimes.

"we too can cause harm, we should really link arms / they already take arms, a factory, fake farms / they killers, why we help them kills us?"

★ three.balloons: 9 out of 10

(feat. Jay Electronica & Eryn Allen Kane)

wanna listen to this while wearing leather and those skinny red sunglasses. and i wanna sit across from you with a cup of tea and over-analyze this song to you. her voice is something real iykyk.

"casual white fans / who invented the voyeur? / fascinated with mourning, they hope her trauma destroy her "

four.boomboom: 6 out of 10

(feat. ayoni)

im not a real fan of her earlier attempts at this genre (montego bae) but i do like this the more I listen to it so it’s an ever growing 6.

"i’m black, i’ve been black, fuck what you thought"

★ five.potentially the interlude: 9 out 10

y’all know jon bap? him and her, just like this <3. the flow of this is strong n slight. i love words and potential is threatening here, my potential is threatening to myself in this mindset. (this song feels slanted, don’t ask)

"if you were just a little bit more pretty / wrote a bit like kenny / you would have a life worth livin"

★ six.namesake: 10 out of 10

futuristic jazz spoken word. dread but encouraging. (jon bap born into this) reminds me of the 20s when they had those short lil bumped bobs and those planes flying over they heads with the smoke and perfectly tailored dresses.

"watch the fighter jet fly high / war machine gets glamorized / we play the game to pass the time / go noname go"

seven.beauty supply: 7 out of 10

great song, one of those that make me go “why do yt people listen to noname” (i know why I’m not stupid). makes me think of all the shitting that was done on the natural hair movement and how we went no where fr. bc it was taken over by yt folks

"cosplay a new identity, same enemy, / me / when I believe i’m prettier with my weave / when i could see the forest behind the trees / i’ll be free"

eight.toxic: 8 out of 10

triumph, healing, prosperity, and noname. what do all these things have in common? this song! this brings me back to window (my fave noname song fr)

"Never again in my new, new life, I treat me well"

nine.afro futurism: 7.5 out of 10

short but sweet. "how can you be getting it and innocent at the same time?" a little ode to the work she does outside of music and why she does it.

"this a dog eat dog world / she got family to hunt"

ten.gospel?: 4 out of 10

(feat. $ilkMoney, billy woods & STOUT)

love that she asked! The answer is no! i mean like her verse eats but the rest isn't for me. it can grow on me but i can't make it pass her verse and if i do i skip the last one. not for me but not everything is!

"wherever black people sleep, pray for them / pray for me, pray for me, pray for me"

★ twelve.oblivion: 10 out of 10

(feat common & ayoni)

okay common! great way to end the album. i love the word oblivion, no one’s around: oblivion, no one’s listening: oblivion. ayoni's voice is also amazing, she has a new fan and we can all thank noname.

"when the world blows up, that’s it / muthafucker I don’t care imma talk my shit / into oblivion."

Final (Serious) Thoughts noname brings attention to the commercial consumption of black people, explicitly black woman at times, in the media and how it feeds into capitalism. she calls out all the musicians in the spotlight profiting off black woe and black sorrow while living lavish, far away from it. she brings light to the destruction of consumerism that's happening within the black community. noname's enemy is capitalism and she's telling us, begging us to make it ours too. overall, this is a very well put together album and was so worth the wait.

lyrics from azlyrics and apple music.

[catdotjpeg]

i wasn't able to do this before today because my partner got covid from a coworker and i've been really upset abt it. shit sucks man!

anyway i listened to a bunch of stuff that i don't normally listen to this past month because i did this tiermaker based off the 200 best albums of the last 25 years, according to pitchfork readers and realized there were a bunch of albums i had never heard before, or hadn't heard in a long time. so that's fun. maybe i'll post that here someday. idk! i mean at this point i'm mostly just posting for myself.

list of albums under the cut

1997 diana // brockhampton (alt hip hop)

apollo xxi // steve lacy (pop / funk)

voodoo // d'angelo (neo soul / r&b)

babae // kelady (alt dance / hip hop)

pretty little baka guy // shonen knife (japanese pop punk / post punk)

bitter tea // the fiery furnaces (indie rock / electronic)

love hallucination // jessy lanza (canadian electro-pop / experimental)

choose your weapon // hiatus kaiyote (australian future beats / neo soul)

leak 04-13 (bait ones) // jai paul (english pop / r&b)

hard to please (reprise) // spellling (experimental / progressive pop)

different now // courtney barnett (australian alternative)

seeds // tv on the radio (art rock / electronica)

psycho:logy // shouta aoi (j-pop)

maningen // atarashii gakko! (j-pop)

enknee1 // hemlocke springs (indie synth-pop / bedroom pop)

golden best ~pressure~ // golden bomber (japanese pop punk)

kyotaro&rikuo // kyotaro&rikuo (japanese funk / drum and bass)

flux // poppy (alt rock / grunge)

government plates // death grips (experimental hip hop)

born like this // mf doom (british-american hip hop)

fever to tell // yeah yeah yeahs (garage rock revival / art punk)

earth born // soft ballet (japanese synthpop / new wave)

citrus // asobi seksu (shoegaze / dream pop)

fúzào // faye wong (c-pop / dream pop)

fm! // vince staples (hip hop)

[mrscorpio]

Another MR. SCORPIO'S HOUSE FIRE is UP!

Mixcloud: http://bit.ly/Mixcloud305

D/L: http://bit.ly/DL-HF305

Shows: http://bit.ly/ScorpioPodcasts

Featuring:

Name/Artist/Album

Speakers Go Pop (Guti ft. Kurz Remix)/Figi,San Proper,Lewie/A Place For Love Remixes

S I P P I N G 4 L I F E/Byron The Aquarius/MDMA/The Adventures of Bernard Walters EP

Caught Up/Neana/Eddington Again/Mercury

Tides/Carlo/Tides

Self Release (Original Mix)/Steam One/Self Release

Over The World (Extended Mix)/Louis De Vega/Over The World

Is Your Love (Original Mix)/The Disco Stepper/Is Your Love

I Gotcha Back (Ricky Montana Extended Remix)/Rio Dela Duna/I Gotcha Back

Wake (Marco Corona Mix)/Lost Kontrol/Wake

Tend Dat Garden (Original Mix)/Uri Allgood/Too Good

I Don't Know Why (I Love You) Kenny Dope Mix/The Brand New Heavies/I Don't Know Why

Makeba (Extended Mix)/TR3NACRIA/Makeba

Porta Time/Julio Bashmore,T. Williams/ZP Dub

What Not To Do (Moodymann Remix)/Róisín Murphy/What Not To Do

balloons (feat. Jay Electronica & Eryn Allen Kane)/Noname/Sundial

Therapy/Homeboy Sandman/Rich

We Danced (feat. Miscellaneous & Thomas Anton)/Al'Tarba, 4bstr4ck3r & Vivi Zekid/Le Cabinet des Curiosités, Vol.2

Fonk Abyss (Milkcrate Remix)/King Kashmere & Alecs DeLarge/Milkcrate My Craft 2

Magnet Bones/Rahiem Supreme x Wino Willy/Snake & Crane Secret

Scotch Bonnets feat. Awon/Spice Programmers/Transatlantic Shit

Mount Up (Feat. Guilty Simpson)/Kut One/Live Wires 3

Weight Watchers (Feat. Heem & DJ Ambideckstriks)/Rick Hyde, Black Soprano Family, Heem B$F/LUPARA

Reign Supreme feat. Termanology/Halfcut & Reks/Survival Mode

Sus Tain/Theravada & Zoomo/Waste Management

Hooked/BAMBII, Aluna/INFINITY CLUB

1 MAN/Cato/The Wind That Was Blown

Night Writer/Hus Kingpin/Threesome 4: Dirty Secret

The Bell Tower (Intermission)/Jay Royale/Criminal Discourse + Bonus Track

Tell The DJ/9DM x DJ Nicar/Tell The DJ

Seen It All/ Did It All (feat. Shokus Apollo)/True God/Comeback Trail

Porcelain (Feat. Ankhlejohn)/Jack Jetson & Illinformed/CAMOGODSKIN

Letters (feat. J-Pegs the Legend)/True God & Shokus Apollo/Adult Contemporary Boom Bap Vol. 2: Life & Love

Midnight Athens/ChasBeats/Inner City Jazz

Where You Belong/Little Dragon/Tumbling Dice

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93: Vampire Weekend // Contra

Contra Vampire Weekend 2010, XL Recordings

Contra dropped right in the heart of what was, in retrospect but also at the time, an incredibly stupid backlash against Vampire Weekend. Fortunately, in the year of Our Lord 2023, there’s no longer any need to litigate the right of this band to exist, but it’s funny to look back at how perfectly calibrated this album was to further piss off anyone who’d hated their debut. “Too Ivy League, too WASPy,” detractors groused, so here’s a song called “Diplomat’s Son.” “They shouldn’t be appropriating African music,” members of the faculty of arts moaned, so here’s an updated song from Koenig and Tomson’s pre-VW hip-hop project (“Giving Up the Gun”). “They’re inauthentic!” said some guy in a Bad Religion t-shirt, so here are a few Auto-Tuned bars, causing that man (and Jay-Z presumably) to spontaneously shit his drawers.

I don’t think Contra is the sound of trolling, exactly, so much as it is a band who heard everyone telling them the places they shouldn’t go and decided to go have a poke around some of them. If it’s a hair less consistent than their wall-to-wall banger debut, it also reaps the benefits of its wider range: even as “Cousins” and the extraordinary “White Sky” proved they were still capable of writing compact indie pop gems, the dayglo electronica of “Run” and languid bleep-bloop ska of “Diplomat’s Son” found them creating ever more immersive soundscapes, each full of unexpected detail and surprise. Though it’s fair to think of it as a bridge between their self-titled and the celebrated Modern Vampires of the City, I’ve always thought of Contra as my favourite by the group.

A bit of an aside, but despite all the deserved fawning over the band’s songwriting and Batmanglij’s production over the years, I realized recently that I think Koenig is a bit underappreciated as a vocalist. Listening to the way he consistently turns his own wordy, hyper-literate lyrics into fluid pop, reminds me of what Cole Porter remarked upon hearing Ella Fitzgerald’s take on his songbook: “My, what marvelous diction that girl has.” Like the singer to whom he’s most often compared, Paul Simon, he has a high, pretty voice that might seem thin in the hands (cords?) of a less sensitive vocalist, but he transcends it by making the right choices. In 2014 Koenig performed a duet of “I Think Ur a Contra” with Angelique Kidjo, a vocalist who is always poised to (warmly) eat her duet partner’s lunch, yet despite the massive disparity in firepower, Koenig holds his own. He keeps to the breathy little melismatic adornments that brought him to the dance even as she does her usual bravura thing, and the steadiness of his performance makes for be a nice study in contrasts, two ways to get at the emotion latent in an elegantly built song.

93/365

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