Kojaque - Town's Dead [2LP Black]

Format: 2LP
Catalogue No.: DIF477LPS
Barcode: 5400863043735
Release Date: 25th June 2021
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

 Kojaque follows his critically acclaimed cult concept record, ‘Deli Daydreams’, with an expansive, urgent debut album. In this landmark debut, Kojaque mines both his emotional interior as an artist, and the external forces of a love triangle barrelling towards chaos. ‘Town’s Dead’ is a mind-bending, explosive and expansive trip, documenting a tumultuous love triangle that unfolds across New Year’s Eve in a place where gentrification poses as much a threat as the violence of street dealers.
 Sonically, the record smashes any previous expectations, stretching an aural palate that leaps from rage to solace, from clattering musical combustions to tender ruminations. The tremendous scope and scale of ‘Town’s Dead’ demonstrates an artist utterly untethered to assumptions about what a particular voice or genre should be, and instead explores radical musical territory. Dark corners of parks, bedrooms, clubs, streets and psyches are excavated and pouring over the rubble is an artist who refuses to conform, unafraid of the vulnerabilities that are exposed when the voice rings true, because there’s just no point in being anything else.
 Kojaque is part of a new wave of Irish artists flooding the world with blistering and sophisticated literature, film and music - ideas and work that emerged from a social revolution stonewalled by late-stage capitalism. Welcome to that state of mind, where the path less travelled is the only one worth taking.
 On the announcement of his debut album Kojaque has said: “‘Town’s Dead’ comes from the potential that I see in Dublin and in the people I’m surrounded by day in and day out. There’s nothing but talent and ambition among young people, I’m constantly reminded of that through the art and music that I see being made but I think so often the city grinds you down, it takes your hope and your ambition. I know that it can change because so many of my friends express the exact same wants, desires and frustrations with living in Ireland. If so many of us are on the same page then I know that things can change, there just needs to be some sort of catalyst to kick start that change and for me that’s always been art and music. Time and time again, amazing art continues to be made in spite of the struggles and setbacks that are presented when living here. The title track and the album is a fight against what can sometimes feel inevitable, it’s a rejection of what people tell you is your destiny as a young person in the city, Town’s NOT dead it’s just Dormant.”
 CD housed in digisleeve containing 12-page lyric and photo booklet.
 Black double vinyl housed in 5mm wide spine single sleeve with 12-page lyric and photo booklet.
 “Hints of Odd Future and its offspring... Kojaque is not your average rapper” - i-D
 “Dublin’s hip-hop community are making waves right now... an intimate introduction to the world this bold artist inhabits” - Clash
 “Social realist rhymes set to silky hip-hop” - NME
 “Likeable and funny” - Trench
 “The Dublin MC forcing us to face real life; both the gory and the glory” - Wonderland
 “Ireland’s freshest hip-hop hope, Kojaque, serves ‘soft hip hop’ with a side order of poetry and performance art” - Notion

Tracklisting:
Heartbreak
New Year, Who’s This? (Interlude)
Town's Dead
Wickid Tongues
Shmelly
That Deep
Black Sheep Part I
Rover
Jinty Boy Blues
No Hands
Part II
Sex N’ Drugs feat. Celia
Tiab
Fallin For It
Coming Up
Casio feat. Maverick Sabre
Curtains

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