this album owns
― example (crüt), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
#latepass
otmfm
Also I relistened to Black Up recently and two years later it completely did my mind in
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
both great records that I love but rarely am in the mood to listen to.
― Spottie, Monday, 12 January 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Black Up is my favorite album of the decade so far.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 09:32 (nine years ago) link
^this is why I spun it again. It's prob top 3 for me now. It sounds really radical to me
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this album is truly great imo
― Dan S, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
black up is 10 times better than lese. which is good but just a bit too meditative. this group need to be careful they dont become a new kind of pm dawn (not in sound, as i actually liked pm dawn, but in perception). but it is interesting how shabazz seem to get more love in non rap than in rap circles.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 11:13 (nine years ago) link
It's the record label
― Spottie, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
I need to listen to LM a little more before I can offer any more opinions w conviction but it kind of is like the Tree House to Black Up's Dark York, where both Le1f and SP are sort of evoking cloud rap as a way to transmute their tendencies towards abstraction into something more luxuriant and luminous, aesthetically speaking
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
good analogy
it is interesting how shabazz seem to get more love in non rap than in rap circles.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:13 AM Bookmark
I get why, but a lot of my love for SP has to do with how artfully they capture the hyperspecific context of being a black Seattlite. Moreso on Black Up than LM, even if it doesn't have anything as geographically specific as the line about the fence at Ezell's.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYeTod70_GE
this is what the beats on LM remind me of.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 26 January 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
― example (crüt), Monday, January 12, 2015 1:09 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― marcos, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
also wtf @ this thread title?
― marcos, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
haha yes it is... unfortunate
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
it came from a twitter post mentioned in The Stranger: http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/01/11/shabazz-palaces-bigger-than-jimi
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 3 August 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
A few days ago I was on a date and we randomly walked past Ish chilling on a park bench eating from a takeout container by himself. My date didn't know who he was. Cool story.
― drown zoowap (The Reverend), Monday, 3 August 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
would read again
― Spottie, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
does anyone really think lese is better than black up?
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
thee satisfaction are a tad on the corny side as vocalists/writers btw. musically theyre much more interesting.
i don't particularly care that much if black up is better, they're both good
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
*this guy*
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
yea they have very different vibes imo and sometimes i like the spacier more out there ambient vibe of lese, sometimes i prefer black up
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
i mean i still think black up is a masterpiece too!
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
clear some space out so we can space out
― marcos, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 10:53 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i actually do!
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
also the opening two tracks on lese are so inviting that i just think of those opening vibes and immediately feel compelled to put the record on
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Ha, that's how I feel about Black Up.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 18 September 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
ha black up is also inviting for sure.
also i have really been digging theesatisfaction's EarthEE, tried a while back and it didn't really stick but i am really enjoying it right now
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
EarthEE is fantastic
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Friday, 18 September 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
"lavishments of light-looking" track from WOKE, new group w/ fly lo + thundercat + shabazz - https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/woke, this tune has george clinton on it too
more info
http://pitchfork.com/news/61398-flying-lotus-talks-woke-his-new-project-with-shabazz-palaces-and-thundercat/
http://www.thefader.com/2015/09/28/flying-lotus-shabazz-palaces-thundercat
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
in a spa or
sometimes ppl need spas
― j., Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
new song: https://shabazzpalaces.bandcamp.com/album/quazarz-born-on-a-gangster-star
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Quazarz is out there now. kookoo good
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 May 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
This is a group that feels like they should be way more massive than they are. Reminds me a little bit of Animal Collective pre MWP in terms of it being a mass kept secret.
― yesca, Sunday, 7 May 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
two new albums
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/535282090/first-listen-shabazz-palaces-quazarz-born-on-a-gangster-star
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/25/534316470/first-listen-shabazz-palaces-quazarz-vs-the-jealous-machines
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
think the first one's got a little oboe solo on it
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
or an english horn or somethin
im more into what his son's doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwIX4GwN8U&t=2s
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwIX4GwN8U
Keep thought leading!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
The new albums are great. I feel like I'll be spending the rest of the summer unravelling them.
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 09:40 (six years ago) link
i like the albums but ive a feeling nothing will be as good as blackup from these guys. obv these two albums are going to take a long time to figure out, but these two sound much looser than the last two. kind of relaxed, like its just two albums from a group not really striving to do anything in particular, and releasing the results (i know theres some sort of narrative at work, but im not sure it was that sustained).
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
The problem with these two albums to me is that it's basically just a sketched out version of a story that was also there on Lese Majesty. But, some of the details are great. I'm not the worlds biggest hip-hop expert, has there been much talk of 'Quasars' before? It's brilliant as a concept, not a star (which were negative on Lese Majesty, too corporate, too gilded pharaoh) but a quasar, QUAsi-StellAR, star-like but in fact powered by a black hole at the center. That's kinda afro-futurism at it's finest, imo.
― Frederik B, Monday, 28 August 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
cuz there's no theesatisfaction thread - classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2powgJ-7t_Y
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Yes. Their second album, especially.
― Dr Keith Assblow (stevie), Sunday, 8 October 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Is it just me or did these guys peak already? Def some interesting stuff on what they've done since but they seem to (despite the big concepts that they seem to adore) have become much more low key, like they just keep making music and putting it out, without any great game plan...
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
They peaked with Black Up. That is one of the top 10 best hip hop albums of the 2010s for me, nothing they’ve done after feels as concise and visionary.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I feel the same. Also just weird that they went from black up to almost totally avoiding anything that sounded as tough. Maybe black up was an anomaly, and they approached it diff as it was their sub pop debut and after that they just went back to what's their comfort zone, kinda trippy, ethereal, stoner ish, less concrete material.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 09:17 (three years ago) link