“Armand Hammer are […] touring in support of their excellent 2023 album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, and as Stereogum points out, they revealed that they’ll have a vinyl-only album called BLK LBL available at the shows. They did a similar thing in 2022 with WHT LBL, a limited-to-500, vinyl-only release “consisting of unreleased material and collaborations, new and old,” and billy woods says, “Like the WHT LBL, some individual songs may end up in new (or old) places but this project will not be on streaming.”

The album features production from JPEGMAFIA, Aesop Rock, DJ Haram, Messiah Musik, Kenny Segal, The Lasso, Samiyam, Andrew Broder, August Fannon, The Lasso, and Armand Hammer’s own ELUCID, plus appearances by Dreamcrusher, Mattie, Zeroh, and A. Billi Free.” [Brooklyn Vegan]

ARMAND HAMMER (pronounced Arm & Hammer) is a New York based hip-hop duoconsisting of longtime collaborators ELUCID and billy woods. Both artists already had burgeoning solo careers when they joined forces for their 2013 debut, Race Music to modest critical acclaim. That album was followed by an EP; Furtive Movements in 2014. Both artists continued to collaborate over the following years; making appearances on each other’s work and performing together, but fans would have to wait four years for a new Armand Hammer project. ROME was released in November of 2017, and the duo doubled down with Paraffin in 2018. Like opposite sides of a coin, the two albums are connected, yet radically different in their design. Paraffin was greeted with a wave of critical acclaim that only rose in the wake of 2020’s naturalistic masterpiece Shrines or their transgressive 2021 collaboration with The Alchemist, Haram.

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