I was 18 in northern Finland, I had this album on repeat one of the coldest winters I remember. The poetry of this album was like a friend, warming up the room when I was feeling the most isolated.
00:00 "Free Press and Curl" 4:15 "An Echo from the Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 7:30 "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 12:18 "A Treatease Dedicated to the Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 15:04 "Youlogy" 19:03 "Endeavors for Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 21:54 "Recollections of the Wraith" 25:30 "The King's New Clothes Were Made by His Own Hands" 27:37 "Yeah You" 30:58 "Swerve... The Reeping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)"
1. "Free Press And Curl" 0:00 2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 4:16 3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 7:31 4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 12:19 5. "Youlogy" 15:04 6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 19:03 7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 21:54 8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 25:30 9. "Yeah You" 27:37 10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 30:58
1. "Free Press And Curl" 0:00 2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 4:16 3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 7:31 4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 12:19 5. "Youlogy" 15:04 6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 19:03 7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 21:54 8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 25:30 9. "Yeah You" 27:37 10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 30:58
2017 and this album is still like fresh air. Unique even for the underground scene. This reminds me of when Camp Lo dropped Uptown Saturday Night. Very different, but still relevant for the time. Instant classics. Just my opinion.
This album will go down in history. For it's lyricism, production, innovation, novelty for its time and it's ultimate message. This is an important piece of art.
I can't get enough of this album. It's been 2 years that first heard of Shabazz and I haven't gotten tired yet. It made me hopeful that good music exists.
No. Title Length 1. "Free Press And Curl" 4:16 2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 3:15 3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 4:48 4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 2:46 5. "Youlogy" 3:59 6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 2:51 7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 3:36 8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 2:07 9. "Yeah You" 3:21 10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 5:10
1. 0:00 - Free Press And Curl 2. 4:15 - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum 3. 7:30 - Are You... Can You... Were You? 4. 12:18 - A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis 5. 15:02 - Youlogy 6. 17:53 - Endeavors For Never 7. 21:54 - Recollections Of The Wraith 8. 25:30 - The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands 9. 27:37 - Yeah You 10. 30:58 - Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile
Album meets my criteria for good music in any genre: you can fight, fuck, dance or cry to it. Criteria for true hip hop: lyrics resonate if u hear them in headphones, on streetcurb in a cypher, in a PACKED dingy club or in an arena.
Turning onto these guys on the heels of listening to a lot of Flying Lotus,.a bit of fresh air from a genre that's fatigued to say the less, can't help to hear the trip-hop influence in the vain of say Massive Attack's Mezzanine. That Hip/hop-Rock Mash up was pretty hot in the early/mid nineties, but these elements def. seem to flirt w/ a sinister goth/rock element. Good Stuff!!!!
It's the label putting out his music for free on youtube. Subpop is one of the few companies trying to adapt in the music industry and I commend them for that. They know that giving people a decent taste of the full album will encourage at least a few people to buy it.
This album is true hip hop. So much energy in it. You have to listen this several times, before you understand it. This album is way ahead of it's time. Love the lyrics as well.
At first I was like how do people like this? Then it was just like madvillany I just started love it and now this is one of my all time favorite albums.
Very original sound coming from Shabazz. Mix of the drum machine, with reversed whale samples, and congo drums, just wow. So many breaks in here too, definetlly a record for the Djs. Originality and innovation is the golden rule of this album and Hip-Hop in general. If you're looking for punchlines and the classic "verse chorus verse" format this album isn't for you. IT'S A FEELING
Whenever I start listening to this album, it feels like my brain is being sonically massaged. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it's the only way I can describe it.
Not that anyone cares,but when I was 13 I was obsessed with Digable Planets when they came out. Theirs was the first concert ever that I went to by myself with my friends in 1993. Blowout Comb...same thing. Listened to that for YEARS. I am so glad that Butterfly/Ishmael Butler can still have that effect on me literally 20 years later. It's the BEST hip hop I've heard in years. Puts me in a whole other mind space like Digable did. I hope Ish (and his partner Tendai Maraire) make music forever.
That’s dope 93 til infinity…Digable one of the best ever! 93 Tribe Midnight Marauders, Both Digables, And Del Future Developement still in the rotation damn near 30 years later✌️
not only do i like how this album takes a very hard criticism of rap and african american culture from the outside in, but I love how this album is full of a wide range of emotions that are normally absent from hip hop albums. Like all great art, it takes time to appreciate it for its full value though, give it time.
18.10.2017. Saw them live in Zagreb, my hometown. I've been a fan since Lese Majesty came out (saw the KEXP performance), and what can I say...? Best music being made today! Great guys. We talked a bit, and I got my Black Up vinyl signed, the only album I hadn't own up until that point. Fan for life :-D
@Isaiah: that plus a Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" vibe. Where the entire range of sound is explored for the chosen instruments AND the album is put together as an entire composition NOT just a playlist.
Barely coming around to giving this group a listen. I fucking regret not making this decision sooner. One of the most interesting, most original sounds I've come across in a while
It's obviously not a "jazz" album, but Butterfly is influenced by jazz though it was much more obvious in Digable Planets. He does use a lot of jazz samples and beats in his music and "Endeavors" (one of the tracks in this album) definitely has a jazz feel.
whoops upside my head whoops upside my head, soft runnings of liquid sounds, sonic syrup and linguistic licence, now we are here maybe we could find the shortest pathway to arrive
I know he's Butterfly. That's why he's carrying the torch of Digable Planets, since Digable Planets proper no longer exists, but Butterfly still makes music in the same vein.
Sounds like experimental dark industrial stuff from the mid 80s like GREATER THAN ONE's All The Masters Licked Me/London, or COIL or something... but hiphop treated. Amazing track.
Definitely a thread connects the musics... That GTO track was always out of water in the industrial world! Coil simply ate up every sound they ever heard and filtered it thru themselves. They were always interested in finding new sounds...
Troy Palmer Im astounded anyone who listened to that listens to this... pretty wide span required ;) I think the voice treatment is similar in a few GTO tracks, and the minimalist beat here is similar to the cut down sound of GTO before they went dance.
This is really good hiphop. Got the number 3 spot on spin top 40 rap albums of 2011! and thats why im here let me say it was a well deserved spot because now ima instafan
Alan Fair Stop spreading this popular opinion type hate. The man was an innovator and a total nutcase who failed many times in order to make many of the most user friendly devices that we now have. How ignorant are you that you lump him in with Wall street?
I totally agree with you. But why the hate haha steve jobs rocks and I'm just bothered by this popular idea that people who make great things but profit are evil. And to your point it seams like he was digressing with the names, like God might be above the others haha
I bought it and love it. To me, it's a classic. But you're wrong to call any music complete trash. I've never found music that has absolutely no value to it. Everything is a contribution. You have the right to not like a song, but it still has value to it. Try not to discount that.
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it's a feeling.
7 years later melon...what do you think of Shabazz now?!?! Times have changed my bald friend.
🐜🐜🐜🐜
lol, u actually exist.
hi anthony
@@vibrynth1472 hello
I was 18 in northern Finland, I had this album on repeat one of the coldest winters I remember. The poetry of this album was like a friend, warming up the room when I was feeling the most isolated.
One of the best rap albums of this century
00:00 "Free Press and Curl"
4:15 "An Echo from the Hosts That Profess Infinitum"
7:30 "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)"
12:18 "A Treatease Dedicated to the Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)"
15:04 "Youlogy"
19:03 "Endeavors for Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)"
21:54 "Recollections of the Wraith"
25:30 "The King's New Clothes Were Made by His Own Hands"
27:37 "Yeah You"
30:58 "Swerve... The Reeping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)"
thanks
This helps immensely!
👍🖤
MY GOD... HOW CAN MUSIC SOUND SO NEW, DIFFERENT AND GOOD AT THE SAME TIME?THANK YOU SUB POP. THANK YOU SHABAZZ PALACES!
Welcome to alternative hip hop.
1. "Free Press And Curl" 0:00
2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 4:16
3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 7:31
4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 12:19
5. "Youlogy" 15:04
6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 19:03
7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 21:54
8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 25:30
9. "Yeah You" 27:37
10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 30:58
many thanks
Lucas Mancini I
1. "Free Press And Curl" 0:00
2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 4:16
3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 7:31
4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 12:19
5. "Youlogy" 15:04
6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 19:03
7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 21:54
8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 25:30
9. "Yeah You" 27:37
10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 30:58
one of the greatest alltime hip hop albuns
top ten easily
2017 and this album is still like fresh air. Unique even for the underground scene. This reminds me of when Camp Lo dropped Uptown Saturday Night. Very different, but still relevant for the time. Instant classics. Just my opinion.
Acidic R Us was. that's my old job.
This sounds like Fela Kuti resurrected in 3047. Kudos to Shabazz Palaces for making such a distinct sound.
This album will go down in history. For it's lyricism, production, innovation, novelty for its time and it's ultimate message. This is an important piece of art.
I can't get enough of this album. It's been 2 years that first heard of Shabazz and I haven't gotten tired yet. It made me hopeful that good music exists.
No. Title Length
1. "Free Press And Curl" 4:16
2. "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" 3:15
3. "Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt)" 4:48
4. "A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" 2:46
5. "Youlogy" 3:59
6. "Endeavors For Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)" 2:51
7. "Recollections Of The Wraith" 3:36
8. "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" 2:07
9. "Yeah You" 3:21
10. "Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)" 5:10
Doing God's work, son.
Flying Lotus keeps talking about these guys, for good reason it seems.
Thats Because They are the Highest Echelon
I really LOVE this album from start to finish. Amazing display of talent and originality.
1. 0:00 - Free Press And Curl
2. 4:15 - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum
3. 7:30 - Are You... Can You... Were You?
4. 12:18 - A Treatease Dedicated To The Avian Airess From North East Nubis
5. 15:02 - Youlogy
6. 17:53 - Endeavors For Never
7. 21:54 - Recollections Of The Wraith
8. 25:30 - The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands
9. 27:37 - Yeah You
10. 30:58 - Swerve... The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile
Album meets my criteria for good music in any genre: you can fight, fuck, dance or cry to it. Criteria for true hip hop: lyrics resonate if u hear them in headphones, on streetcurb in a cypher, in a PACKED dingy club or in an arena.
Turning onto these guys on the heels of listening to a lot of Flying Lotus,.a bit of fresh air from a genre that's fatigued to say the less, can't help to hear the trip-hop influence in the vain of say Massive Attack's Mezzanine. That Hip/hop-Rock Mash up was pretty hot in the early/mid nineties, but these elements def. seem to flirt w/ a sinister goth/rock element. Good Stuff!!!!
No doubt, modern take on Pharcyde era. been waiting for it to get back to this.
It's the label putting out his music for free on youtube. Subpop is one of the few companies trying to adapt in the music industry and I commend them for that. They know that giving people a decent taste of the full album will encourage at least a few people to buy it.
When Maxwell sang "Shouldn't I realize / that you're the highest of the high ..." He was referring to Shabazz Palaces
Because it don't get no iller
This album is true hip hop. So much energy in it. You have to listen this several times, before you understand it. This album is way ahead of it's time. Love the lyrics as well.
Right now I'm getting into rap and hop hop music and this is one of the albums someone recommended to me and I love it.
"clear some space out so we can space out"
"OOOOOooooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOooo"
This is Ultra-Mega God-Level Hip Hop, only a handful of people will ever create something so rich, complex and perfect through any medium of art.
Damn this whole record has such a bleak, hollow sound when you listen on headphones.
I love it.
gangsta rap in outer space
+Jeff Penn like Mos Def and Brian Eno fingerbanging each other inside of a video game.
+Jeff Penn I love it though. You have to be zooted until you reach a point where the music gets you high.
that would be cannibal ox
At first I was like how do people like this? Then it was just like madvillany I just started love it and now this is one of my all time favorite albums.
There's a special place in Hell for those who don't put tracklists in the descriptions.
😂😂😂😂😂
+Austin Coates Get back in the robot Shinji
And there's a special place in heaven for those who put tracklists in the comments.
bro they put the music up for free what's the problem
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I wish someone told me about this album years...i had to move to Seattle, to find out about this...dope album
It's like half way between Madvillian and DG. SWEET!
Also Flylo quite a lot.
Nah this just shabazz palaces. they dont rep any other styles, this their style.
Very original sound coming from Shabazz. Mix of the drum machine, with reversed whale samples, and congo drums, just wow. So many breaks in here too, definetlly a record for the Djs. Originality and innovation is the golden rule of this album and Hip-Hop in general. If you're looking for punchlines and the classic "verse chorus verse" format this album isn't for you. IT'S A FEELING
Whenever I start listening to this album, it feels like my brain is being sonically massaged. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it's the only way I can describe it.
One of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. Defined my taste as a youngin.
So weird how Butterfly still sounds the same after all these years.
Not that anyone cares,but when I was 13 I was obsessed with Digable Planets when they came out. Theirs was the first concert ever that I went to by myself with my friends in 1993. Blowout Comb...same thing. Listened to that for YEARS. I am so glad that Butterfly/Ishmael Butler can still have that effect on me literally 20 years later. It's the BEST hip hop I've heard in years. Puts me in a whole other mind space like Digable did. I hope Ish (and his partner Tendai Maraire) make music forever.
That’s dope 93 til infinity…Digable one of the best ever! 93 Tribe Midnight Marauders, Both Digables, And Del Future Developement still in the rotation damn near 30 years later✌️
@@davidmorales55We share the exact same tastes. Have you heard "Edan - Beauty and the Beat"?
I EVEN LOVE THE OUTRO! "BLACK IS FREE!"
The whole album has jazzy undertones. Its not so much put out on center stage, its more of an influence
Thank you Shabazz Palaces for this album
tendai left shabazz palaces in 2020. still tho, many great tracks to play. digables were incredible too 💜
The level of production is Godly..oh lawd
Are you...Can you..Were you (felt) has to be one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time
I'm really glad I discovered this hip-hop diamond.
I'm just getting hip to this,true innovation right here
Wow so 90's trip hop is back again. I knew it was only time.
Thank God for Shabazz Palaces
I blew my speakers out because of this album, and couldn't be happier about it!!!
not only do i like how this album takes a very hard criticism of rap and african american culture from the outside in, but I love how this album is full of a wide range of emotions that are normally absent from hip hop albums. Like all great art, it takes time to appreciate it for its full value though, give it time.
18.10.2017. Saw them live in Zagreb, my hometown. I've been a fan since Lese Majesty came out (saw the KEXP performance), and what can I say...? Best music being made today! Great guys. We talked a bit, and I got my Black Up vinyl signed, the only album I hadn't own up until that point. Fan for life :-D
Damn I love this album ... 2011 was such a good music year
Just saw you guys at the Hub in Singapore and thought you guys were really insightful. Really appreciate your music and your love of music
I’m back 12 years later and it’s still the best ❤
thank u for your service, and so long! thanks for all the fish!
@Isaiah: that plus a Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" vibe. Where the entire range of sound is explored for the chosen instruments AND the album is put together as an entire composition NOT just a playlist.
all the beats are straight fire!!!
I have always loved his voice!!!
Took me to the space in between, consciousness and clarity.
Thanks SP
Bought it, first album I bought this year and totally worth it.
I FUX WITH THIS WHOLE CREATIVE WORK!!!!!!
saw them Saturday for Sub Pop's birthday in Georgetown. very good. beat.
This ish is on a whole nother level musically wise it creates it's own genre almost
.. never heard about it until yesterday evening.. :D .. totally addicted to it !! Shabbazz Palace iz that fresh ting.. ONE!!!
Yeah, I can see how some people may not like it. Fortunately for me, I like it. Yay, my ears win!
These guys are like the hip hop Ween, I like this.
Rebirth of Slick!
It's amazing, Shabazz. I'm so excited to hear what comes next
One of my favorite albums. It all started with Digable Planets
i didn't have to skip not ONE track. That hasn't happened in quite some time. This is the future. Now dig that!!
I really wasn't feeling this band at first,after I saw them live with gonjasufi I gave em another listen.I'm hooked.this is too dam slick.
Unforgettable album. Perfect.
Brilliant. Loved it!
Really enjoying this.
idk if i love this because its legit good music or because its so different
The nostalgia for the future....!!!Peace!!
great album, i have started to love music again
Damn where have i been???
Album of the year.
Barely coming around to giving this group a listen. I fucking regret not making this decision sooner. One of the most interesting, most original sounds I've come across in a while
I love this album
If you don't like it that's cool. At least you gave the album a chance before coming up with a negative opinion on it, unlike a lot of people.
greatest album of 2011, maybe even this decade.
It's obviously not a "jazz" album, but Butterfly is influenced by jazz though it was much more obvious in Digable Planets. He does use a lot of jazz samples and beats in his music and "Endeavors" (one of the tracks in this album) definitely has a jazz feel.
Watching the short film gives great visuals for thinking about the album within.
not bad at all. love to see butterfly is still active
been sleeping on these dudes. kinda heard of 'em, buuuutt... this shit kills. my goodness. badassery.
this album fucking ruled when it came out. it still does, but it used to too
no. 4 on best albums of the year's list in belgium:D deserved it's place i think
BUTTERFLY
never heard this before but my friend has tickets for a show tonight and can't go.....deff going noww
Chef d'oeuvre.
whoops upside my head whoops upside my head, soft runnings of liquid sounds, sonic syrup and linguistic licence, now we are here maybe we could find the shortest pathway to arrive
I know he's Butterfly. That's why he's carrying the torch of Digable Planets, since Digable Planets proper no longer exists, but Butterfly still makes music in the same vein.
I would not go that far, there are more hip hop artists doing experimental and complex things than SP, but this album is one of the best.
Sounds like experimental dark industrial stuff from the mid 80s like GREATER THAN ONE's All The Masters Licked Me/London, or COIL or something... but hiphop treated. Amazing track.
Definitely a thread connects the musics... That GTO track was always out of water in the industrial world! Coil simply ate up every sound they ever heard and filtered it thru themselves. They were always interested in finding new sounds...
Troy Palmer Im astounded anyone who listened to that listens to this... pretty wide span required ;) I think the voice treatment is similar in a few GTO tracks, and the minimalist beat here is similar to the cut down sound of GTO before they went dance.
Going to see them in Atlanta next year.
Amazing album! I like that little 'Black is Us' segment at the very end.
This is really good hiphop. Got the number 3 spot on spin top 40 rap albums of 2011! and thats why im here let me say it was a well deserved spot because now ima instafan
Love The King's New Clothes.. Has the best message in terms of just life...
It's just too damn short!
God, Hermes Trismegisto, Buda, Da Vinci, Einstein, Steve Jobs, Larry Page & Shabazz Palaces
please not steve jobs..greed personified
Alan Fair Stop spreading this popular opinion type hate. The man was an innovator and a total nutcase who failed many times in order to make many of the most user friendly devices that we now have. How ignorant are you that you lump him in with Wall street?
I totally agree with you. But why the hate haha steve jobs rocks and I'm just bothered by this popular idea that people who make great things but profit are evil. And to your point it seams like he was digressing with the names, like God might be above the others haha
Steve Pisano steve jobs and bill gates can and will burn in hell
ok dude.
something about a certain kind of attitude connect this with kode9 & spaceape album
I bought it and love it. To me, it's a classic. But you're wrong to call any music complete trash. I've never found music that has absolutely no value to it. Everything is a contribution. You have the right to not like a song, but it still has value to it. Try not to discount that.