Armand Hammer - Snakes & Ladders [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: BWZ822CD
Barcode: 0850063560801
Release Date: 15 Jan 2027
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Armand Hammer return at a new commercial and cultural peak, following their acclaimed 2025 reunion with The Alchemist, Mercy, which Pitchfork called the trio’s “slickest, most exacting collaboration yet.”
The campaign launches on the heels of Armand Hammer’s first-ever NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert,introducing the duo’s commanding live performance to one of music’s largest and most influential global audiences.
Both members enter the album cycle with significant individual momentum: billy woods’ GOLLIWOG was among 2025’s most celebrated independent rap releases, while ELUCID returned in 2026 with the critically praised Sebb Bash collaboration I Guess U Had To Be There.
An expansive production lineup connects multiple corners of forward-thinking hip-hop and experimental music, including Preservation, clipping., Kenny Segal, Animoss, Sebb Bash, Child Actor, Messiah Musik, Steel Tipped Dove, Theravada, Saint Abdullah & Eomac, and acclaimed jazz drummer Mekala Session.
Armand Hammer’s physical catalog has consistently demonstrated collector demand, with previous vinyl editions becoming increasingly scarce or sellingout. Snakes & Ladders is positioned as an essential physical release for established fans of the duo, billy woods, ELUCID, and the broader Backwoodz Studioz catalog.

Snakes & Ladders, the new album from indie rap duo Armand Hammer, was written and recorded in the winter of 2025-’26. Perhaps reflective of our times, it’s a project full of extremes and contradictions: intimacy, compassion, love, and conviction mingle with fear, anger, hopelessness, and violence. With Snakes & Ladders, ELUCID and billy woods delve into the knotty conundrums of our lives, in this country, in this world, and in this moment.
Production credits go to Preservation, clipping, Animoss, Kenny Segal, Sebb Bash, Mekala Sessions, Child Actor, Saint Abdullah & Eomac, Theravada, Jeff Markey, Messiah Musik and Steel Tipped Dove.

Tracklisting:
1. Deadbolts
2. Send for Me
3. Lock Out/Tag Out
4. Jet Magazine
5. Nightswim
6. Times Tables
7. don’t say it if it isn’t true
8. Gravity
9. Vespers
10. Dragon Teeth
11. Incidentals
12. Graveside feat. DJ Haram
13. Dogville
14. Assembly Lines
15. Risk feat. $ilkmoney
16. if we must die