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Released: Jun 2011
Label: Sub Pop Records
Northwest collective Shabazz Palaces explores Afro surrealism on Black Up. "New off the spaceship/ Dipped in punctuation," claims Palaceer Lazaro on "Recollections of the Wraith" as he praises his band's dread bass and dub wallops, and dances over beats as beguiling as his rhymes. "It's a feeling," he says on "Are You ... Can You ... Were You?" Shabazz Palaces' willful experiments are too esoteric for pop consumption, but that may the point, if his volleys against "corny" rappers on "Yeah You" are any indication. For the rest of us, delving into Black Up's riddles is its own reward.
- Mosi Reeves
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up 2011-07-27
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    4:15
    Free Press and Curl
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    3:14
    An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
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    4:47
    Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt)
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    2:45
    A treatease dedicated to The Avian Airess from North East Nubis (1000 questions, 1 answer)
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    3:58
    Youlogy
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    2:51
    Endeavors for Never (The last time we spoke you said you were not here.  I saw you though.)
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    3:35
    Recollections of the wraith
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    2:07
    The King's new clothes were made by his own hands
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    3:20
    Yeah You
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    5:10
    Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)
℗ 2011 Sub Pop Records