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- Summary: The seven-track EP release from Shabazz Palaces features guest appearances by Lavarr the Starr, Lil Tracy, O Finess, Porter Ray, Royce the Choice, and Camp Lo's Geechi Suede.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rap, Alternative Rap, Contemporary Rap, Left-Field Rap
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Nov 16, 2023On Robed in Rareness, Butler takes yet another step in his forward-thinking, far-sighted project, as the opening track title, “Binoculars”, indicates. Despite the brevity of this release, space is still the place.
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Oct 31, 2023Butler shows that there is strength in numbers and in being able to amplify the skills of fellow collaborators.
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Nov 13, 2023The light, nimble, casual nature of Robed in Rareness makes it a pleasant interlude within the Shabazz Palaces discography.
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Oct 31, 2023Robed in Rareness is ultimately a less significant Shabazz Palaces release, but there’s something fitting about a casually adventurous album by a vet dropping in the year of hip-hop’s 50th birthday. As the doomsayers look backward, Butler turns his gaze everywhere.
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The WireNov 7, 2023Butler offers seven tracks whose energy swings between chaotic and cool. [Nov 2023, p.62]
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Oct 31, 2023Its seven tracks are rhythmically labyrinthine, unhurried in tempo, with clamping drums and cosmic synthesizers that burble, prance, and sometimes create a sense of menace.
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Oct 31, 2023Despite the fact that Robed in Rareness runs about the length of an episode of your average sitcom, its songs are so vaporous that one may have a difficult time remembering them. Put bluntly, the album underscores just how much Shabazz Palaces is running on fumes.