Description
The creation of and the Anonymous Nobody has been several years in the making. De La Soul wanted to make another sample-based album in the vein of 3 Feet High and Rising. In order to do so, and avoid the legalities of sample clearance, they spent a few years recording more than 300 hours of live music, converging everything from bossa nova, soul and hip-hop to funk, disco and reggae, creating their own sample library. The body of work is a concept and continuous story, even down to the transitions of songs with sound effects and instrumentals.
The features-based record is mixed by Bob Power, Morgan Garcia and De La Soul, and was produced by De La Soul and Dave West. Guest appearances include Snoop Dogg, Usher, 2 Chainz, Damon Albarn, David Byrne, Jill Scott and more. “This album is about lending to the scape of music in 2016, trying to give something, not for the sake of we want to balance what’s going on or fix hip-hop. We just want to say something to the creative aspects of music,” says Dave.
It’s not often we get decent long players these days. The new LP from De La Soul may not be chock-full of bangers that you’re going to play out as a DJ, but it certainly has it’s highlights, and it plays through as a great album should do. The hip hop super-trio have always had a knack of delivering the goods when the time is right and lyrically this is on point throughout. A sure fire grower that will no doubt become a classic in years to come. De La Soul are back…
Limited pressing of 1000 copies.
