Shabazz Palaces : The Don of Diamond Dreams

The 10-track album, which includes the highlights Fast Learner (ft. Purple Tape Nate), Chocolate Souffle, Wet, Bad Bitch Walking (ft. Stas THEE Boss), and Thanking The Girls, features contributions from singer/keyboardist Darrius Willrich, percussionist Carlos Nio, Knife Knights collaborator OCnotes, saxophonist Carlos Overall, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes.

The New Yorker says of the album, [Shabazz Palaces] spontaneity and irreverence for rap conventions feel particularly urgent; these experiments are malleable and resistant to form at a time when declarative statements on the current era seem futile. Instead, the group continues bludgeoning musical complacency with songs as equivocal as inkblot tests. This is high art / I tear the form apart, Butler raps on Chocolate Souffle. He engages in a conversationalbeit an ambiguous onewith contemporary hip-hop on Wet, and dives headlong into a puddle of free jazz on Reg Walks by the Looking