Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Via eleven original songs, their self-titled Debut album offers revealing new takes on classic themes of redemption and loss, hope and home delivered with urgency and heart where back-country high-lonesome collides with Delta soul, resulting in the freshest sound to emerge from Music City in recent memory. Album Tracks 1. Blue Side of the Mountain 2. Drinkin' Dark Whiskey 3. Midnight Train to Memphis 4. Midnight Tears 5. If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone 6. If It Hadn't Been for Love 7. Hear the Willow Cry 8. Sticks That Made Thunder 9. East Kentucky Home 10. To Be with You Again 11. Heaven Sent

BLACK UP is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. BLACK LIGHT uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but Shabazz didn't come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Album Tracks 1. Free Press and Curl 2. An Echo from the Hosts That Profess Infinitum 3. Are You Can You Were You? (Felt) 4. A Treatease Dedicated to the Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 Q 5. Youlogy 6. Endeavors for Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here 7. Recollections of the Wraith 8. The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands 9. Yeah You 10. Swerve... the Reeping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)

Coming from a simpler, more essential, innocent place, the hero could not make heads nor tails of most advancements. From an aerial view, he saw that a good percentage of earthly vibrations were on very small squares and it became his belief that this world was very disposable and the spans short. His opinion was not of anything good nor bad but simply the truth. The machines-he noted-though at the behest of their master's voice, are scorned, and jealous as all hell. And so the tale is told while surfing on the board of Shabazz Palaces, with it's sturdy base angled for takeoff on a new trajectory. There is new blood and space and room to be different and have different assets and different art and different ways to talk and also open up some space inside to do something new. There are pages and there are drawings, and color and faces and inked dialogues written in ancient futuristic hieroglyph. There are scales and there is melody and there are Sunny days and there is Darkness, but that-it should be noted-to the Palaceer is not a lack of illumination or brightness. Maybe it is dark, but in it is always optimism and joy, a bright darkness and a full, hopeful one as well. Album Tracks 1. Welcome to Quazarz 2. Gorgeous Sleeper Cell 3. Self-Made Follownaire 4. Atlaantis 5. Effeminence 6. Julian's Dream (Ode to a Bad) 7. 30 Clip Extension 8. Love in the Time of Kanye 9. Sabonim in the Saab on 'Em 10. The SS Quintessence 11. Late Night Phone Calls 12. Quazarz on 23rd