
Shabazz Palaces detail new LP Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star, share lead single "Shine A Light"
25 April 2017, 15:41
| Written by
Laurence Day
Shabazz Palaces have announced new record Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star and shared Thaddillac-featuring track "Shine A Light".
The new song comes with a lyric video directed by Cristina T. Bercovitz and Jonathan Snipes of Clipping.
Knife Knights take production duties on Quazarz, the long-awaited follow up to 2014's Lese Majesty, which sees Shabazz Palaces "tell the tale of Quazarz, a sentient being from somewhere else, an observer sent to Amurderca as a musical emissary to chronicle and explore."
Tracklist:
- Since C.A.Y.A
- When Cats Claw
- Shine a Light (ft. Thaddillac)
- Dèesse Du Sang
- Eel Dreams (ft. Loud Eyes Lou)
- Parallax (ft. The Palaceer Lazaro)
- Fine Ass Hairdresser
- The Neurochem Mixalogue
- That's How City Life Goes
- Moon Whip Quäz (ft. Darrius)
- Federalist Papers
Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star is out 14 July via Sub Pop.
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