Sub Pop will release Shabazz Palaces’ first full-length record, Black Up, on May 31. The record is one of the most anticipated local albums of the year and after listening to the record’s first single, “An Echo From the Hosts that Profess Infinitum,” there’s a good reason for all the hype.
Like most things Shabazz Palaces the song carries an air of mysticism. The track immediately draws you in with a seductively dense and rich beat and by the time the cut ends with Palaceer Lazaro repeating “Who. Do you think. You are?” your mind is pretty much blown.
You can download “An Echo From the Hosts that Profess Infinitum” below and while you’re waiting for that mp3 to load give the Sub Pop bio for the record a quick read.
From Subpop.com:
Black Up is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. 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. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.—palaceer pink gators. Produced by Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands. It was recorded and mixed in Lixx-alog by Blood.
