Worthy of the factory/4AD levels of abstraction package... Shabazz palacesHometown: Seattle.
Range: Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (music, vocals).
Background: Shabazz palaces, the first hip-hop Act to sign to Sub Pop, are an Enigma, wrapped in mystery, inside an enigmatic spirit belonging... who? Well, Shabazz palaces are, or perhaps just is, Palaceer Lazaro, the name currently used to conceal the fact also that he was once - and technically speaking rest - Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler. Why he would want to do, keep his identity quiet? Because Butler spent the 1990s in a hip-hop act won a Grammy called Digable Planets, which were good, while a boho way jazzily and titled intriguing issues such as Reachine (a new refutation of time and space), but in rap, as in rock, nobody wants to be seen as the last decade, let alone the last but his.
Anyway, the point is, Butler wants to focus on music, it is now. No MySpace page there, it own-produced two albums in 2010 with little or no attempt to promote their and his first album that Shabazz palaces include credits, with package achieve Factory/4AD levels of abstraction and mystique. He name the other people involved in the project, nor is it particularly keen on advertising, and when he finally agreed to an interview with Pitchfork, he refused to send them a picture, suggesting that they use a chart instead.
Why all the shadowplay? Perhaps because that he uses all his words on the titles of songs, leaving with nothing else to say. He obtained a 32 called leaves plunged into blackness Making clouds forming altered carbon, while the other, relatively snappy, is entitled An Echo of the hosts that profess Infinitum. Fortunately, it retains some energy back for music, which, in the case of 32, leaves... is more dark and John Carpenter-I that we remember Digable Planets being, while an Echo... is dirgey and dare we say, future istic musically a bit strange.
Butler is not the only comrade value of your time (E-40 has been brought to our attention by a reader last week). When we say the song-title Church has a wobbly bottom, we are talking about the deep, booming bass influenced by dubstep, step fat saggy ass sound. There is here to study, the video to Blast it for a movie called link difficult that Butler scored on children at the Kenya glue sniffing, to the Meridian Belhaven short, which is where Spike Lee meets Spike Jonze. Elegant and stark, smooth yet intense, a kind of mellow murk - whatever info sleeve, check the heavy and elegant atmosphere.
Buzz: Hands down our favorite album of the year so far - Gorilla vs. Bear.
The truth: Although useful, without being worthy, which Digable Planets were a little.
Probably to: Be tense.
The least likely of: Be terse.
What to buy: First album Black Up was released by Sub Pop on June 27.
File next: Kool Keith, Talib Kweli, company Flow, Digable Planets.
Links: shabazzpalaces.com.
New band Thursday: The Jezabels.
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