Shabazz Palaces - Of Light
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Based on 2 reviews
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Based on 63 ratings
2009 Rank: #207
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Pitchfork
The beats are dense and, at times, haunted; at the same time, this shit would sound great booming out of passing car windows.
80
Coke Machine Glow
Shabazz Palaces are in a position similar to the Cool Kids a few years ago, coming into sudden relevance after emerging from seemingly nowhere—and by nowhere I mean Seattle, Digable Planets, and the family line of weed-head punchline Gonjasufi, whose Twitter feed neatly approximates the feeling of being lobotomized.
TedC
80

One of my favourite EPs of 2009. To this day I still find these to beats pack a punch and use really remarkable loops.

Sparkles is a song I want to point out for its one of a kind beat, its drums make this thing moody and gives me the feeling of being inside a sweat lodge full of volatile water, and I don't even know if its a guitar doing this but the flicks at the end of every second bar is haunting and fear inducing like a Luigis Mansion type beat.

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SJCTurntable
46

In contrast to their eponymous sister EP from 2009, Shabazz Palaces intrigue more from the outset with greater use of vocal and instrumental sampling. From the opening piano bars of the first track, and their promise within its lyrics that they are committed to providing greater musicality than the majority of his hop outfits, Palaceer Lazaro and Tendai Maraire have produced a lighter and more accessible counterpart to their other aforementioned darker and drumbeat dominated EP.

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Track List

1Gunbeat Falls
3:04
60
2100 Sph
3:17
40
3Hottabatch
3:05
55
4Chuch
3:52
45
5Spechol-Analog
2:03
75
6Sparkles
2:40
55
7N. Splendored/Find Out
4:16
40
Total Length: 22 minutes

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