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Nothing Is Quick in the Desert
Hip-Hop · 2017 · 13 tracks · 40m

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert

Public Enemy

Weathered, gritty boom bap recorded with a desert-dry finish. A veteran's perspective on digital decay and political exhaustion, delivered with unyielding gravel.

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It's Public Enemy sounding like they just walked out of a Mad Max movie with a bag of dusty SP-1200 beats.

A weathered, authoritative gaze at a decaying digital world through the lens of desert-dry boom bap.

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert · vs · Public Enemy
Desert+4.0σ

Desert saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 40m
01
Nothing Is Quick in the Desert
1:21
02
sPEak!
3:32
03
Yesterday Man
4:21
04
Exit Your Mind
0:51
05
Beat Them All
2:55
06
Smash the Crowd
3:32
07
If You Can’t Join Em Beat Em
1:28
08
So Be It
3:50
09
SOC MED Digital Heroin
3:54
10
Terrorwrist
1:57
11
Toxic
3:12
12
Sells Like Teens Hear It
2:58
13
Rest in Beats, Part 1 & 2
6:53
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition into the heavy, distorted guitar riff on Smash the Crowd that bridges the gap between rap and punk.
Chuck D's voice dropping into a lower, more gravelly register during the social media critique of SOC MED Digital Heroin.
The sprawling, atmospheric seven-minute conclusion of Rest in Beats which serves as a sonic eulogy for hip-hop history.
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