Maps

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Less focused on political and historical subjects than woods' 2022 albums, Maps is a sort of travelogue, with lyrics mainly written and recorded on the road. It is alive, not only because digital and analogue instruments crowd into the mix, but also because it refuses to embrace constant change.

Maps is the new album from NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, their first full collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places. A-list features include: Danny Brown, Sam Herring (Future Islands), Aesop Rock, Elucid, Benjamin Booker, and more. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. Tracks like the intro "Kenwood Speakers" and wobbly, Selected Ambient Works Volume II-sampling "Babylon by Bus" describe existence in corporate America and traveling through soon-to-be-gentrified areas. Woods and Segal have made the mistake of making the stereotypical backpacker record which means that the record is easy to sleep on because it's too tranquil.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.Other guests on the album include Aesop Rock, Quelle Chris, and Elucid, woods' partner in the duo Armand Hammer. But billy woods’ new album, recorded with beat maker Kenny Segal, is the NYC underground rap icon’s most accessible record to date, following his decolonial »Aethiopes« (2022) and the autobiographical meanderings of »Church« (2022). He produced tracks for Armand Hammer (the duo between Woods and Backwoodz label mate ELUCID) and 2019’s hugely successful »Hiding Places« with billy woods.