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Back when I was heavy into underground hip-hop, Sole was a regular in my weekly mixes. I got into his music through my love for Atmosphere (he was in a group called Deep Puddle Dynamics with Slug) and I came to associate him with forward thinking, slightly abstract hip-hop. In the past few years I haven’t followed him as closely, but he popped up recently with his response to Mac Miller’s “Donald Trump” and now he’s getting ready to drop his first post-Anticon album Hello, Cruel World. The most striking thing to note is that he got Lil B on a track called “Bad Captain Swag”. Sole and Lil B? This should be very interesting.
Here’s what he had to say about the album, along with the first single.
For the past few months I have dropped comments here and there about my new record, and it’s been really hard to contain my excitement about it. Today we make our initial announcement about the 3rd lp from sole and the skyrider band “Hello Cruel World.” I think it’s my best album. It marks a completely new direction that I have hinted at through Nuclear Winter, although far less political, better produced and a lot poppier. I called in a lot of my homies, old and new, to pitch in on this project… it features contributions from: Lil B, Sage Francis, Ceschi Ramos, pictureplane, XIUXIU, Noah23, Isaiah Toothtaker and Mestizo from Machina Muerte. It’s mixed in a top-notch studio and is essentially my take on the new movements going on in rap music combined with the classic sole and the skyrider band sensibility.
Hit the jump for a tracklisting…
Sole and the Skyrider Band – Hello Cruel World
Out July 19th on CD, LP, Digital via Fake Four Inc.
Tracklist:
Napoleon (feat. Xiu Xiu)
D.I.Y.
Hello Cruel World
Fire
Bad Captain Swag (feat. Lil B & Pictureplane)
We Will Not Be Moved (feat. Ceschi & Noah23)
Possimism
Home Ain’t Shit (written by Pedestrian)
Formal Designation 134340
Immortality
Progress Trap (feat. Sage Francis)
Vaya Con Diablo (feat. Isaiah Toothtaker, Metizo & Ceschi)
Villon
