Shabazz Palaces have announced a new album. It’s called Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star, and it’s out July 14 via Sub Pop. The group have also shared a lyric video for a new song, “Shine a Light (feat. Thaddillac),” directed by Cristina T. Bercovitz and Jonathan Snipes of clipping. Watch it below. The new album is set to feature the Strokes’ Julian Casblanacas, Thundercat, Gamble and Huff, and more. According to a press release, the album tells the story of a “sentient being from somewhere else” named Quazarz. In a statement about the persona, Ishmael Butler a.k.a. Palaceer Lazaro writes:
I, Quazarz, Born On A Gangster Star, son only of Barbara Dream Caster and Reginald The Dark Hoper - he who rides on light - dreamer of the seventh dream and kissed eternal by Awet the Sun Scented - who far from home I found my same self differents in those constellies that be Dai at my weap-side immediate and all us Water Guild affiliates who revelries in the futures passed recordings and ceremonies flexing resplendent in the Paradise Sportif armor - raising these musics a joy/cry that way into these aquadescentdiamondized ethers of the Migosphere here on Drake world. Welcome To Quazarz.
Shabazz Palaces’ last album was 2014’s Lese Majesty.
01 “Since C.A.Y.A.”
02 “When Cats Claw”
03 “Shine A Light” (Feat. Thaddillac)
04 “Play”
05 “Dèesse Du Sang”
06 “Eel Dreams” (Feat. Loud Eyes Lou)
07 “Parallax” (Feat. The Palaceer Lazaro)
08 “Fine Ass Hairdresser”
09 “The Neurochem Mixalogue”
10 “That’s How City Life Goes”
11 Moon Whip Quäz” (Feat. Darrius)
12 “Federalist Papers”
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