Electricity Is on Our Side

by Busdriver

Electricity Is on Our Side cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 June 2018
  • Label: Temporary Whatever
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:22:14
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The incredibly prolific, wildly eccentric Los Angeles MC continues his dominance over the avant-garde hip-hop landscape with this sprawling, highly complex record. The album heavily utilizes fractured, glitching jazz instrumentation and chaotic sound collages to match his notoriously rapid, dizzying vocal cadences and deeply philosophical lyricism. It stands as a brilliant, fiercely independent representation of the Project Blowed collective's enduring creative philosophy.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, sampling, rap, experimental, underground, witty, lo-fi, diverse, spoken-word, dark-humor

Tracklist

  1. electricity is on our side (4:54)
  2. Im from a different time (3:06)
  3. Grape Drank (3:25)
  4. the saboteur's mirror (4:36)
  5. losing you again (4:03)
  6. the year I became a mutherfuckin' G (6:10)
  7. anything can happen///GOODLIFE skit (0:31)
  8. me vs. me (3:07)
  9. kiss around the note (4:15)
  10. break (0:12)
  11. I been there (3:11)
  12. Right before the Miracle (5:15)
  13. this is my art and it is dangerous (0:55)
  14. to top the divorcees list of baroness Nica (2:57)
  15. several friends (2:50)
  16. tiny infinities (4:58)
  17. improvisers anthem (5:01)
  18. be-grizzled_auteur_mythos take_3 (1:26)
  19. Jeane Anthony (4:24)
  20. exploding slowly (4:40)
  21. FUKN (3:34)
  22. sore spot (2:42)
  23. pull the sky closer (5:52)

Credits

  • Swarvy - beats, featuring
  • David Cheppa - lacquer cut by
  • Abstract Rude - featuring [introduction]
  • Aceyalone - featuring [introduction]
  • Haji Ahkba - trumpet, words by [conversation]
  • Denmark Vessey - featuring [guest verse]
  • Lorde Fredd33 - featuring [guest verse], vocals
  • Dntel - featuring [main riff], percussion [light], keyboards ["build up chords"]

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