Published
Tue, Nov 16, 2010, 10:00
- Wolf + Lamb's latest additions will release their second album early next year.
Rhode Island-based duo Voices of Black will make their Wolf + Lamb debut this winter with Plastic Dolls, their second full-length to date.
Made up of Babatunde Doherty and Julian Randolph (AKA Baba and Jules), Voices of Black first appeared last year with Tomorrow's Today, a left-field electronic album with a strong hip-hop influence. The pair were introduced to Wolf + Lamb by acclaimed producer Nicolas Jaar, whom they met at Brown University. Plastic Dolls was inspired primarily by Baba and Jule's obsession with the Brazilian model Ana Beatriz Barros.
"We began working on the album last spring," says Jules. "One morning... during a studio session, we were messing around on the SP-606 and watching the E channel on mute. An interview with Ana Beatriz Barros came on and thanks to the glorious blessing of digital cable, we paused it as she was speaking, admiring her beauty and ambiguous looks. We then decided 'let's make some songs that sound like what she looks like!'"
Baba says the album generally follows the themes of "models, the runway and the fraud," something he attributes to their environment in New York, where both artists lived until recently. "While we were finishing the tracks, Jules was in a transitional point, getting tired of the New York scene," says Baba. "Every now and then we'd chill in Soho and Nolita, and you'd see a lot of beautiful girls. Many had hopes of modeling one day. After a while the whole scene surrounding that just became nauseating for us. So much fraud."
Tracklist
01. Fraudulent Scene Intro
02. Sohos
03. Disco Jackie
04. Le Fuzze
05. Klossy
06. Drinks on me
07. Waiting Outside
08. Loft Rooftop
09. Downtown Rain
10. Models in Elevators
11. I Tried to love
12. Ride
13. Shade
14. I-95 (Escaping the Fraud)
15. Brown Eyed Girl
16. All Must Conclude (Paris)
17. Greenleaf in the Heart (Beatriz Edit)
Wolf + Lamb will release Plastic Dolls on January 17th, 2010.