Dour Candy

by Billy Woods

Dour Candy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 July 2013
  • Label: Backwoodz Studioz
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:49
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Teaming exclusively with veteran underground producer Blockhead, the New York emcee delivers a dense, cynical survey of urban decay. The album pairs Blockhead's dusty, boom-bap-inspired loops with Woods' abstract, highly literary approach to political and conscious hip hop.

Genres

Descriptors: Progressive, Conscious, sampling, political, complex, conscious, drugs, underground, experimental, storytelling, menacing

Tracklist

  1. Prelude (0:40)
  2. The Undercard (1:34)
  3. Gilgamesh (3:53)
  4. Redacted (3:08)
  5. Manteca (2:47)
  6. Central Park (2:32)
  7. The Opposer (3:56)
  8. One Thousand One Nights (2:20)
  9. Tinseltown (3:16)
  10. Tumbleweed (3:29)
  11. Hack (3:38)
  12. Fool's Gold (4:31)
  13. Pro Wrestling (4:02)
  14. Lucre (3:14)
  15. Cuito Cuanavale (1:43)

Credits

  • billy woods - primary artist, lyrics by
  • Ashes57 - artwork
  • L 'Wren - featuring
  • Elucid - featuring
  • DJ Addikt - scratches
  • Aesop Rock - featuring
  • Moka Only - featuring
  • Open Mike Eagle - featuring

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