Apollo Brown & Hassaan Mackey - Daily Bread [2LP/ Ltd Ed Black & Yellow Star Burst Vinyl]

Back with that grit, tell the soundman to turn this shit up. New York emcee Hassaan Mackey (Rawkus 50) slangs words and onomatopoeia, rhymes like he wants to, and backs the whole room into a corner with a raw vision of the streets that pierces ordinary experience and gets at life's marrow. Meanwhile Detroit producer Apollo Brown (The Reset, Brown Study, Gas Mask, Clouds) lays the sonic foundation with hard drums and big bass, while the crackle of vinyl hums. Gritty and soaked in soul, Daily Bread brings to mind an old photograph as it bangs out the system. Each track is heavy with a sense of atonement, haunted by experience, and energized by a cathartic sense of hope. Give us our Daily Bread and forgive us our trespasses.

A1        Daily Bread
A2        Volume
A3        Something
A4        Dollar Bill Hill

B1        Elephants
B2        Different World
B3        Weak Won't Do
B4        The Trenches
C1        Tell Me
C2        Mackey's Lament
C3        Heroes
C4        Megaphone
D1        Higher
D2        The Note
D3        Like A Diamond