True Opera

by Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry

True Opera cover art

Camae Ayewa branches out significantly from her abstract hip-hop origins, teaming with producer Mental Jewelry for a brutal excursion into early 80s punk and noise-rock. The instrumentation utilizes screeching, repetitive guitar dissonance and heavy, mechanical drum machines akin to Big Black or Suicide. Ayewa's searing spoken-word vocals furiously tackle historical oppression and violent systemic racism.

Genres

  • Noise Rock
  • Post-Punk

Tracklist

  1. True Opera
  2. No Hope
  3. Look Alive
  4. Judgement
  5. Eugenics
  6. Working
  7. Westmoreland County
  8. Le Grand Macabre
  9. Boris Godunov
  10. Shadow