DJ Shadow declares new album Our Pathetic Age, that includes Run the Jewels, Nas, De La Soul, and extra
DJ Shadow is returning this fall with a star-studded double album. His first launch in three years, Our Pathetic Age is due out on November 15th by way of Mass Enchantment Information.
The Mountain Will Fall follow-up collects a complete of 23 tracks. The primary half is comprised of instrumental works, together with his “first totally composed orchestral piece,” per an announcement. As for the remaining songs, they see DJ Shadow be part of forces with a number of well-known faces, collaborators outdated and new, from the worlds of hip-hop, indie rock, and past.
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Run the Jewels, Nas, Dave East, and Raekwon seem on the report, as do Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Implausible Negrito. Interpol frontman Paul Banks, who beforehand dropped a hip-hop report with RZA, is listed as a contributor alongside Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring, who additionally occurs to moonlight as a rapper. DJ Shadow additionally reunites with Solesides label associates Lateef The Truthseeker and Reward of Gab (Blackalicious).
When it comes to themes and lyrical content material, the album’s title ought to clue listeners in on DJ Shadow’s mind-set,
“Greater than something, I attempt to get a way of the temper of society as a complete. The refined alerts that people ship one another, the best way individuals behave, their frustrations and ebbs and flows. In my a part of the world, persons are scared. There’s rampant homelessness, and an actual worry of falling into generational poverty. Persons are hooked on, and addled by distraction; they’re indignant and confused, and disaffected by their very own governmental establishments. There’s songs which can be impressed by this vitality and search to harness it, to make sense of it. In some instances, there’s makes an attempt to salve the wound; in others, the songs merely observe however don’t provide options. Regardless of the title, it’s a hopeful, vibrant album…there may be all the time gentle in darkness. I would like it to replicate the instances we reside in, a signpost within the floor to mark the period…Our Pathetic Age.
Following summer season single “Rocket Gas” that includes De La Soul, DJ Shadow is sharing an instrumental association known as “Rosie”. Stream it beneath.
Our Pathetic Age Paintings:
