Terror Management

by Billy Woods

Terror Management cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 October 2019
  • Label: Backwoodz Studioz
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:32
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A dense and disorienting album, 'Terror Management' is conceptually structured as a film and its behind-the-scenes documentary, exploring themes of paranoia and coping mechanisms in a hostile world. The record features a wide array of producers, creating a fragmented, industrial, and sample-heavy soundscape. Over this, Billy Woods delivers his signature cryptic, literary verses, further cementing his status as one of experimental hip-hop's most vital and challenging voices.

Genres

Descriptors: Dystopian, Political, Literary, Male Vocalist, Sampling, Conscious, Fragmented, Progressive, underground, experimental, storytelling, menacing, political, lo-fi, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Marlow (2:29)
  2. Western Education is Forbidden (3:57)
  3. That Was Then (1:30)
  4. Windhoek (2:48)
  5. Long Grass (2:35)
  6. Myth (1:18)
  7. Blood Thinner (3:26)
  8. Dog Days (1:26)
  9. Dead Birds (1:53)
  10. Gas Leak (2:37)
  11. Birdsong (3:18)
  12. Great Fires (2:19)
  13. Cornstarch (2:27)
  14. Fnu Lnu (2:24)
  15. Trivial Pursuit (1:37)
  16. Sheperd's Tone (2:07)
  17. Suzerain (2:11)
  18. Stranger in the Village (2:01)

Credits

  • Mach-Hommy - featuring
  • Akai Solo - featuring
  • Pink Siifu - featuring
  • Lauren Kelly Benson - featuring
  • The Funs - featuring
  • Billy Woods - Primary Artist
  • Fielded - Featuring

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