Dälek - Endangered Philosophies CD
$15.00 USD
Released on September 1, 2017, through
Ipecac Recordings, Endangered Philosophies is the seventh studio album from the experimental hip-hop pioneers Dälek. This release is characterized by a "wall of sound" that blends industrial noise, shoegaze, and politically charged boom-bap, serving as a darker, more defiant follow-up to their previous work.
Product Features & Packaging
- Format: Compact Disc (CD) housed in a digipack.
- Artistic Direction: Features artwork and design by long-time collaborator Paul Romano, with additional logo work by Marko Burbano.
- Production: Entirely written and produced by MC Dälek (Will Brooks) and Mike Manteca (Mike Mare), with recording and mixing completed at their own Deadverse Studios.
- Sonic Identity: Critics from Noisey and Rolling Stone highlight the album's ability to "deconstruct hip-hop," mixing the political rhetoric of Public Enemy with the suffocating textures of My Bloody Valentine.
Full Tracklist
- Echoes Of... (4:31)
- Weapons (4:53)
- Few Understand (4:21)
- The Son of Immigrants (5:54)
- Beyond the Madness (4:51)
- Sacrifice (4:57)
- Nothing Stays Permanent (4:21)
- A Collective Cancelled Thought (7:06)
- Battlecries (5:00)
- Straight Razors (3:56)
- Numb (5:45)
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