Shrines (Armand Hammer album)

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Shrines
Armand Hammer - Shrines album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Armand Hammer
ReleasedJune 5, 2020 (2020-06-05)
Genre Underground hip hop
Length43:13
Label Backwoodz Studioz
Producer
Armand Hammer chronology
Paraffin
(2018)		Shrines
(2020)		 Haram
(2021)

Shrines is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Armand Hammer. [1] It was released via Backwoodz Studioz in 2020. [2] The album's cover is a photograph of a NYPD police officer about to tranquilize and capture the tiger Ming of Harlem. [3]

Contents

Background

Billy Woods and Elucid toured Europe as Armand Hammer in 2019. [4] While in Edinburgh, they started writing a song titled "Bitter Cassava" and made demos. [5] They recorded the song after they got back to New York City. [5] Once a few things were figured out, they started work on Shrines. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [6]
The Quietus favorable [7]
Stereogum favorable [8]

Eden Tizard of The Quietus stated that "Shrines sees a new kind of clarity takes shape, a departure from 2018's monolithic Paraffin ." [7] He added: "Where production there was thick and volatile like boiled tar, Shrines is comparatively spacious, the density of the bars even more pronounced." [7] Tom Breihan of Stereogum described Shrines as "an album about people trying to build utopias on perilous and unstable piles of garbage." [8] He stated that "Armand Hammer take in the poison-cloud existential joke of a world around them, and they answer that joke with images as poetic as the tiger at the window." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Bitter Cassava" (featuring Pink Siifu) Earl Sweatshirt 2:56
2."Solarium" Navy Blue 1:32
3."Charms" (featuring Keiyaa) Child Actor 2:37
4."Pommelhorse" (featuring Curly Castro)August Fanon3:33
5."Leopards" (featuring Nosaj)Fat Albert Einstein3:02
6."King Tubby" Nicholas Craven 3:25
7."Frida" (featuring Quelle Chris and Fielded) Andrew Broder 4:11
8."Slewfoot"
3:19
9."War Stories"Messiah Musik3:06
10."Flavor Flav"Steel Tipped Dove2:45
11."Dead Cars" (featuring R.A.P. Ferreira) Kenny Segal 3:32
12."Parables" (featuring Akai Solo)Navy Blue3:18
13."Ramses II" (featuring Moor Mother, Earl Sweatshirt, and Fielded)
  • Navy Blue
  • Andrew Broder
4:11
14."The Eucharist"Messiah Musik1:46
Total length:43:13

References

  1. ↑ Terry, Josh (June 18, 2020). "Bandcamp Friday Is Back Supporting Artists and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund". Vice . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Pre-Order Armand Hammer's Shrines". Backwoodz Studioz. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. ↑ Roberts-Grmela, Julian (July 22, 2020). "An Original Strain: Armand Hammer Interviewed". Clash . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ Groovement, Jamie (August 29, 2019). "On Tour: billy woods and Elucid Hit Europe as Armand Hammer". Bonafide Magazine. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Chesman, Donna-Claire (June 16, 2020). ""Fire Represents Power": Armand Hammer Are the Foundational Myth". DJBooth. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Paul A. (June 10, 2020). "Armand Hammer: Shrines". Pitchfork . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  7. 1 2 3 Tizard, Eden (July 27, 2020). "Armand Hammer". The Quietus . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  8. 1 2 3 Breihan, Tom (June 10, 2020). "Armand Hammer Build A Utopia". Stereogum . Retrieved September 1, 2020.
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