Aethiopes

by billy woods

Aethiopes cover art

On 'Aethiopes', billy woods joins producer Preservation, who constructs an atmospheric and often unsettling soundscape from a wide-ranging palette of obscure samples drawn from African and Middle Eastern music. The production's intricate, sometimes drumless arrangements and disorienting loops provide a cinematic backdrop for woods’ dense, non-linear lyricism. His verses explore complex themes of colonialism, history, and the Black diaspora with visceral, allusive storytelling that creates a deeply layered and symbiotic album.

Genres

  • Abstract Hip Hop
  • Experimental Hip Hop

Tracklist

  1. Asylum
  2. No Hard Feelings
  3. Wharves
  4. Sauvage
  5. The Doldrums
  6. NYNEX
  7. Christine
  8. Heavy Water
  9. Haarlem
  10. Versailles
  11. Protoevangelium
  12. Remorseless
  13. Smith + Cross