DRAYMOND BROWN by THEFOODLORD & Konart1st

For fans of MF DOOM, Injury Reserve, Armand Hammer, vaporwave, and that absurd space halfway between here and psychedelia, DRAYMOND BROWN by THEFOODLORD and Konart1st takes a glitchy approach to classic samples to form a hip hop sound equal parts traditional and transcendent. With flows firmly rooted in 90s poetic mastery and beats inspired by the experimental scene of the 2000s, the resulting sound recontextualizes the culture of the previous generation into something almost unbelievable. We couldn’t imagine getting transported back to the before times, those moments just on the cusp of digital explosion which saw the future as a humanist, technologically-enabled paradise, even for those of us who in fact lived through said times, making all art from that era feel simultaneously incomprehensible and deeply, radiantly human. As we fall deeper into our antisocial future, the remembrance of a more innocent moment in history takes on an almost religious importance, making this record an exercise in finding that soul within us from its last moments of healthy life and giving it a voice fluent in today’s language.