There are still six months to go in 2021. On “Falling Out the Sky,” the production of which is a wonderfully bleary take on roots reggae, ELUCID drops the chilling juxtaposition, “Learned to swim in a pool where a boy drowned last year.” You don’t just listen to HARAM you sit with it. On “Scaffolds,” over an icy piano loop, woods raps, “A shred of truth is all a liar need/ but it all burn the same when the fire feed.” The duo’s affectless delivery has been the asset of every Armand Hammer record to date, but it feels even more apt here, as they stack up a catalog of culturally fraught images and leave it to the listener to decipher them. Pairing with the California producer The Alchemist, woods and ELUCID interrogate all of the things we revere. So it’s fitting that their latest-and, arguably, best-LP, HARAM is about the slipperiness of meaning. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to trackĪpplying any kind of set meaning to an Armand Hammer record is always tricky, because Armand Hammer records are never really about one thing.
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