Published
Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 02:23
- The 23-track double-LP includes appearances from Nas, Run The Jewels, Paul Banks and more.
DJ Shadow will release his sixth studio album, Our Pathetic Age, via Mass Appeal on November 15th.
Josh Davis has split the forthcoming LP into two sections—Our Pathetic Age begins with 11 instrumentals, which segue into 12 tracks featuring a diverse set of collaborators including Nas, Run The Jewels, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, De La Soul, Interpol's Paul Banks and more.
"In my part of the world, people are scared," Davis says of the album's title. "There's rampant homelessness, and a real fear of falling into generational poverty. People are addicted to, and addled by distraction; they're angry and confused, and disaffected by their own governmental institutions. There's songs that are inspired by this energy and seek to harness it, to make sense of it. In some cases, there's attempts to salve the wound; in others, the songs merely observe but don't offer solutions. Despite the title, it's a hopeful, vibrant album… There is always light in darkness."
It's Shadow's first full-length since 2016's The Mountain Will Fall.
Listen to "Rosie" off Our Pathetic Age.
Tracklist
01. Nature Always Wins
02. Slingblade
03. Intersectionality
04. Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law
05. Juggernaut
06. Firestorm
07. Weightless
08. Rosie
09. If I Died Today
10. My Lonely Room
11. We Are Always Alone
12. Drone Warfare feat. Nas, Pharaohe Monch
13. Rain On Snow feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon
14. Rocket Fuel feat. De La Soul
15. C.O.N.F.O.R.M. feat. Gift of Gab, Lateef The Truth Speaker, Infamous Taz
16. Small Colleges (Stay With Me) feat. Wiki, Paul Banks
17. JoJo's Words feat. Stro
18. Kings & Queens feat. Run the Jewels
19. Taxin' feat. Dave East
20. Dark Side of the Heart feat. Fantastic Negrito, Jumbo is Dr.ama
21. I Am Not A Robot (Interlude)
22. Urgent, Important, Please Read feat. Rockwell Knuckles, Tef Poe, Daemon
23. Our Pathetic Age feat. Samuel T. Herring
Mass Appeal will release Our Pathetic Age on November 15th, 2019.
