About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelSub, Sub Pop

UPC0098787133523

eBay Product ID (ePID)26046075115

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2020

GenreRap & Hip-hop/Hip Hop

ArtistShabazz Palaces

Release TitleDon of Diamond Dreams

Dimensions

Item Height0.34 in

Item Weight0.09 lb

Item Length5.39 in

Item Width5.35 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks10

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Portal North: Panthera 1.2 Ad Ventures 1.3 Fast Learner (Feat. Purple Tape Nate) 1.4 Wet 1.5 Chocolate Souffle 1.6 Portal South: Micah 1.7 Bad Bitch Walking (Feat. Stas Thee Boss) 1.8 Money Yoga (Feat. Darrius) 1.9 Thanking the Girls 1.10 Reg Walks By the Looking Glass (Feat. Carlos Overall)

Notes2020 release. Shabazz Palaces' Black Up, the group's Sub Pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla Vs Bear, and Variety. Pitchfork summed it up thusly: "Black Up is drowned in murky instrumentals and bombastic, introspective rhymes. The sounds flirt with jazz but also root themselves in a firm understanding of silence, or the sparse magic of simplicity. The songs teem with unexpected climaxes... From great mystery exploded an album of impossible vision." That "impossible vision" has continued to confound and engage Shabazz Palaces fans over the course of four acclaimed albums and two EPs. Each release feels like an evolution, letting the music speak for itself, while slowly revealing more about it's creator. With The Don of Diamond Dreams, the group's fifth album, that spirit remains, this time embracing modernism in hip-hop and rap. Featuring 10 tracks in 43 minutes, the album features the highlights "Fast Learner (ft. Purple Tape Nate)," "Chocolate Souffle," "Bad Bitch Walking (ft. Stas THEE Boss), and "Thanking The Girls." It also features contributions from singer/keyboardist Darrius Willrich, Seattle's OCnotes (who collaborated with Shabazz leader Ishmael Butler on the Knife Knights project), Los Angeles musician Carlos Overall, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes. The Don of Diamond Dreams was recorded throughout 2019 and produced by Shabazz Palaces at Protect and Exalt: A Black Space in Seattle, mixed and engineered by Erik Blood at Studio 4 Labs in Venice, California, and mastered by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles.