Splendor & Misery

by clipping.

Splendor & Misery cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 September 2016
  • Label: Sub Pop
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:07
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 13 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The experimental rap trio crafts a brilliant, Afrofuturist science-fiction concept album detailing a slave uprising aboard an interstellar cargo ship. Daveed Diggs delivers staggeringly complex, rapid-fire lyricism over William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes' abrasive, suffocating electronic noise production. The record鈥檚 narrative ambition and world-building earned it a prestigious nomination for the Hugo Award.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, noisy, atmospheric, rap, experimental, sci-fi, storytelling, avant-garde, electronic, industrial

Tracklist

  1. Long Way Away (Intro) (1:05)
  2. The Breach (0:56)
  3. All Black (6:15)
  4. Interlude 01 (Freestyle) (1:35)
  5. Wake Up (2:05)
  6. Long Way Away (1:30)
  7. Interlude 02 (Numbers) (1:04)
  8. True Believer (3:44)
  9. Long Way Away - Instrumental (0:51)
  10. Air 'Em Out (3:50)
  11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle) (1:09)
  12. Break the Glass (2:21)
  13. Story 5 (3:04)
  14. Baby Don't Sleep (3:07)
  15. A Better Place (4:25)

Credits

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