Format: 1LP "Clear" Colored Limited Edition
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1LP "Clear" Colored Limited Edition
Release Date:
26/5/2023
Label: Warp Records

CD Edition
Release Date:
26/5/2023
Label: Warp Records

Description

Equally adept as a jazz drummer, rapper, and producer, Seattle's Kassa Overall makes records whose approach to musical modernism is informed amply by beat consciousness. Animals, his third album and Warp debut, is a logical next step from 2020's I Think I'm Good, a complex, startling jazz-hop treatise on struggles with mental illness. Overall surrounds himself here with a wily cast of players, rappers, and singers relentlessly combining electronic and organic beats, many guest performances, and a killer production instinct.

Dozens of recorded efforts combining hip-hop and jazz have appeared over the last three decades. Overall's take is quite intimate and personal, as confessional as it is culturally analytical and emotionally resonant. Given that his lyrics frame individual struggles as microcosms of collective struggle, he needed to discover his own method for combining the musics he loves in depicting his inner process in sound. To that end, Overall's constructions serve to complement, buoy, and accentuate live instrumentation and improvisation. Ultimately, Animals is a compelling conversation between the creator and his psyche, his musicians, and listeners.

Tracklisting

A1 No Camera
A2 Anxious Anthony
A3 Ready To Ball
A4 Clock Ticking
A5 Still Ain’t Find Me
A6 Make My Way Back Home
A7 The Lava Is Calm
B1 No It Ain't
B2 So Happy
B3 It’s Animals
B4 Maybe We Can Stay
B5 The Score Was Made
B6 Going Up 

1 No Camera 2:29
2 Anxious Anthony 0:10
3 Ready To Ball 3:27
4 Clock Ticking 3:36
5 Still Ain’t Find Me 1:47
6 Make My Way Back Home 3:56
7 The Lava Is Calm 3:07
8 No It Ain't 1:29
9 So Happy 4:08
10 It’s Animals 0:33
11 Maybe We Can Stay 3:59
12 The Score Was Made 3:08
13 Going Up 6:16 

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