Crime Waves, by Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry

Crime Waves

by Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry

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McNegus Beautiful, ethereal, ambient, angry Black noise. It touches the gut and the heart and (of course) the mind in equal parts. this record makes me love my people, and I am excited to see what they have to offer in the future... Favorite track: The City.

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1.	Hardware 04:16	buy track
2.	Death Booming 03:27	buy track
3.	Matter Of Time 02:41	buy track
4.	Streets Dept. 03:38	buy track
5.	The City 03:41	buy track
6.	Big Crime 04:26	buy track

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Crime Waves is a collaboration between Philadelphia-producers Moor Mother and Mental Jewelry. The EP features six tracks recorded during a session at Philadelphia's Kawari. The music speaks about systematic violence and racism. From a productions standpoint, these songs bridge avant-classical sounds with modern broken beat/sample based technologies and live instrumentation implemented via laptop. "Two of these tracks - "Hardware" and "Death Booming" - were meant for Fetish Bones but I couldn't get them to sound how I wanted," writes Moor Mother. "I really loved Mental Jewelry's production though, so I suggested that we make an EP. We had bonded over free jazz, drum and bass, and heavy dub - we just spent hours talking about music before we even recorded a track." Moor Mother's debut album Fetish Bones was named one of the top experimental albums of the year by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork as well as one of the best albums of the year by The Wire and she was named Artist of the Year 2016 by Bandcamp.

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released June 16, 2017

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Mental Jewelry

Cover art: Mila Severtseva

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Moor Mother Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Low fi/dark rap/chill step/ blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/southern girl dittys/black ghost songs/

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Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

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