DJ Shadow has announced a new album, The Mountain Will Fall, out June 24 via Mass Appeal. It's the follow-up to 2011's The Less You Know, the Better, the 2012 box set Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era, 1992-1996, and the 2014 EP Liquid Amber. The album features guest appearances from Run the Jewels, Nils Frahm, and others.
Tracklist:
01 The Mountain Will Fall 02 Nobody Speak [ft. Run the Jewels]
03 Three Ralphs
04 Bergschrund [ft. Nils Frahm]
05 The Sideshow [ft. Ernie Fresh]
06 Depth Charge
07 Mambo
08 Ashes to Oceans [ft. Matthew Halsall]
09 Pitter Patter [ft. G Jones & Bleep Bloop]
10 California
11 Ghost Town
12 Suicide Pact
13 Swerve
Having delivered what he recently dubbed his “goodbye letter” to sampling with 2011’s The Less You Know, the Better, here Shadow's new Ableton game chimes more with HudMo's neon fantasies and Death Grips' darkest speaker-bursting bass explorations.
Long-time followers will still find plenty to praise, from a playful spar with Nils Frahm on Bergschrund to Ghost Town's devastating reminder that our maestro can contemporise the mood of a track like Stem any old time he likes. The methods have changed but Shadow's unorthodox sense of rhythm remains reassuringly familiar.
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