Suede, Aj / Specswizard: Long May We Rain / Lost Gems
Suede, Aj / Specswizard: Long May We Rain / Lost Gems
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Suede, Aj / Specswizard
Label: Crane City Music
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 843563132630
Genre: Rap/Hip Hop
Here's a split vinyl of quarantine protest jams from two Seattle heavy-hitters: AJ Suede & Specswizard. Both artists were inspired by 2020's Black Lives Matter protests, mask-wearing, and stay-at-home orders to produce boom-bap tunes that could only exist in the 21st Century. Insomniac magazine praises the pair's 'next level lyricism.' The Seattle Times picked AJ Suede's brilliant 'Long May We Rain' as one of the best albums of 2020. On the flip side of this cross-generational split LP, you'll find the vinyl-only 'Lost Gems' project from Specswizard. He's a veteran of Seattle's scene, releasing dozens of self-produced albums and EPs since his start in 1988. On his latest, the familiar sound of buzzing amps and tape hiss makes way for major-key soul turned into pensive bangers. Specswizard's low, late-night-in-the-living-room baritone conjures the feeling of recording in a cramped apartment while the neighbors are sleeping. Still, the beats knock like side doors and his narratives hover like heavy rain and cumulus clouds of weed smoke. Together, these two records provide a powerhouse portrait of Black life in the American Northwest today. Only 500 individually numbered copies have been pressed.
Tracks:
1.1 The Plane
1.2 Democracy Manifest
1.3 Apathy
1.4 Blood Cuzzins
1.5 Quikkk
1.6 Ten Times Ten Plus
1.7 Majora
1.8 Reverberation (Outro)
1.9 The Plane (Instrumental)
1.10 Majora (Instrumental)
1.11 Empty
1.12 Another
1.13 Pirate Tax
1.14 And Yeah
1.15 Cold Chemistry
1.16 Floyd
1.17 The President
1.18 Legend
