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FLAC (tracks) 16 bit/ 44,1kHz | Time - 00:42:13 minutes | 229.13 MB | Genre: Hip-Hop
Tracks: 10 | Source: Scene

Shabazz Palaces' Black Up, the group's Sub Pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla Vs Bear, and Variety. Pitchfork summed it up thusly: 'Black Up is drowned in murky instrumentals and bombastic, introspective rhymes. The sounds flirt with jazz but also root themselves in a firm understanding of silence, or the sparse magic of simplicity. The songs teem with unexpected climaxes...From great mystery exploded an album of impossible vision.' That 'impossible vision' has continued to confound and engage Shabazz Palaces fans over the course of four acclaimed albums and two EPs. Each release feels like an evolution, letting the music speak for itself, while slowly revealing more about its creator. With The Don of Diamond Dreams, the group's fifth album, that spirit remains, this time embracing modernism in hip-hop and rap. Featuring 10 tracks in 43 minutes, the album features the highlights 'Fast Learner (ft. Purple Tape Nate),' 'Chocolate Souffle,' 'Bad Bitch Walking (ft. Stas THEE Boss), and 'Thanking The Girls.' It also features contributions from singer/keyboardist Darrius Willrich, Seattle's OCnotes (who collaborated with Shabazz leader Ishmael Butler on the Knife Knights project), Los Angeles musician Carlos Overall, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes. The Don of Diamond Dreams was recorded throughout 2019 and produced by Shabazz Palaces at Protect and Exalt: A Black Space in Seattle, mixed and engineered by Erik Blood at Studio 4 Labs in Venice, California, and mastered by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles.

Butterfly was the first up in the 'Rebirth of Slick' video, with the cherubic, heart-shaped face, barely-pubescent stubble, and the voice dripping insouciantly out of his nose. Nowadays the old scalp-puller knots are full, grown-up locks, breaking against his face like high tide; the baggy shirts and jeans are customized boho chic; the voice. The pair anonymously self-released two EPs, Eagles Soar, Oil Flows and The Seven New (referred to as Shabazz Palaces and Of Light, respectively) in 2009 before becoming one of the few hip-hop acts to be signed to the Sub Pop label and releasing its debut full-length album, Black Up to wide critical acclaim in 2011. The saying “mystery is the new hype” is one that could easily be applied to Shabazz Palaces. However, it wouldn’t quite be appropriate. The sense that comes from Black Up is, rather than using their mystique to garner popularity, they’re utilizing it to dispel any preconceptions. Heads down, they’re quietly producing some of the most interesting hip-hop of the year. Shabazz Palaces albums. Shabazz Palaces are one of the great hip hop duo’s of the last five years, along with Run the Jewels. They approach rap music like aliens from outer space, not only in the sound effects used on their records but also in their approach to lyrics and emphasis on words.

Tracklist:

1. Shabazz Palaces - Portal North: Panthera - 0:17 (444 kbps , 947.01 KB)
2. Shabazz Palaces - Ad Ventures - 4:42 (795 kbps , 26.75 MB)
3. Shabazz Palaces - Fast Learner - 5:36 (829 kbps , 33.24 MB)
4. Shabazz Palaces - Wet - 3:20 (776 kbps , 18.49 MB)
5. Shabazz Palaces - Chocolate Souffle - 5:02 (805 kbps , 28.95 MB)
6. Shabazz Palaces - Portal South: Micah - 0:20 (464 kbps , 1.13 MB)
7. Shabazz Palaces - Bad Bitch Walking - 6:20 (769 kbps , 34.88 MB)
8. Shabazz Palaces - Money Yoga - 5:30 (756 kbps , 29.7 MB)
9. Shabazz Palaces - Thanking The Girls - 4:03 (763 kbps , 22.09 MB)
10. Shabazz Palaces - Reg Walks By The Looking Glass - 7:08 (647 kbps , 32.98 MB)

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Shabazz Palaces Merch

The first thing that attracted me to Shabazz Palaces’s album Black Up was that it was a hip-hop release on Sub Pop. I remember the punt they took with the whispering country of Iron & Wine’s The Creek That Drank the Cradle, a beautiful album and completely at odds with their legendary roster. Black Up was bound to be something special, something unpredictable. It is certainly both of these things.

I had hoped to write a review of Black Up well before now. It has, after all, been streaming for weeks in its entirety on YouTube. But my biggest obstacle was the loss of my Grado headphones in the February earthquake. Listening to this album on Blackberry earphones in a car with a Discman is not a recommendation I am prepared to make. Black Up demands time and space. It also demands an old-fashioned, physical copy. Therein lie three important clues. The velvet sleeve is black and flecked with gold like a night sky: this is dark, tactile music. The disc itself is inside a red pocket which has a semi-robotic, African mask on one side and galactic hieroglyphs on the other: this is music from a tribe of aliens. Then there are the song titles - ‘A Treatease Dedicated to the Avian Airess from North-East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer): these aliens are incomprehensible and mad. Stand up Palaceer Lazaro - aka Ishmael Butler aka Butterfly from 90s rap-trio, Digable Planets - is the reluctant front-man for Shabazz Palaces. Interviews are rare, and the identities of the rest of the tribe are unknown.

On Father’s Day, I shooed my own tribe outside, turned Black Up loud and sat down. I needed to sit down: Black Up is short but exhausting. The subterranean bass is the first thing that strikes you – literally - then as the 36 minutes unwind, the listener is lashed with soul, funk, jazz, Eastern slashes and ancient African percussion. It is difficult to tell where one track ends and the next begins; it is an album and, as such, will evade any playlist dissection. Equally, Black Up will be lost on any listeners who require a thread of consistency or logic to lead through them through such a labyrinth. This is for listeners who are more than happy to remain lost.

While Shabazz Palaces, perhaps admirably, take great pains to avoid any taint of commercialism and popularity, their stance presents a double-edged scimitar. The song titles and lyrics keep their distance: there are snatches of love, politics and vitriol, but no hits. Second track, ‘An Echo from the Hosts That Profess Infinitum’ with its ghostly female backing vocals is the only track that comes close to being a single. The album closes appropriately with ‘Swerve…The Reeping…’. Shabazz Palaces try to shake any followers as the track switches back and forth between beats that crunch and fizz, soulful vocals and African drums. The method in their cosmic madness, however, was revealed on ‘Are You…Can You…Were You? (Felt)’ when Lazaro repeats, ‘It’s a feeling’. Shabazz Palaces wields music that is freed from A&R, egos and cliché. Analysis is pointless.

Shabazz Palaces Of Light

Some will scoff. Sub Pop? The arthritic ‘real deal’ rap fan might see this as hip-hop for indie white boys. In Blogland, blow-hards dismiss punters who include a ‘token’ black record on their precious end-of-year lists. Mos Def’s Ecstatic, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy, Why?’s Alopecia and OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/Love Below made many such lists. They were some of the best albums of the last decade in any genre, precisely because they were not limited by genre. Despite lacking the bangers of these classics, Black Up is black gold: it is rich, divisive and elusive.