San Francisco trio Covet have been making gorgeously technical math rock since their 2015 debut EP Currents, but other than some humming, one thing they haven't made yet is songs with proper vocals. It's angry, in-your-face, metallic hardcore that would sound great whenever you listen to it, but which especially feels cathartic with all the anger in the air right now. Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face, their first full-length, only further cements this. END put out their debut EP From the Unforgiving Arms of God back in 2017, and they've spent the time since then solidifying themselves as a force of their own who stand tall next to the members' more famous projects. The word makes END sound like some ego-fueled, too-big-to-fail rock star side project rather than a vital hardcore band whose members just happen to also play in other vital hardcore bands, and END are very much the latter. I wanna try to refrain from using the term "supergroup" to describe END - whose lineup includes vocalist Brendan Murphy (Counterparts), guitarist Will Putney (of Fit For An Autopsy and producer for Knocked Loose, Vein, Every Time I Die, and tons of other cool bands), guitarist Gregory Thomas (ex-Misery Signals, ex-Shai Hulud), bassist Jay Pepito (Reign Supreme, ex-Blacklisted), and drummer Billy Rymer (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan) - because even though each member in this group is obviously pretty super, I feel like it somehow takes something away. Even with the avant-rap niche that Billy, Elucid, and their usual collaborators have carved out for themselves, Armand Hammer remain in a lane of their own.
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With psychedelic, experimental production coming from Earl, Navy Blue, Kenny Segal, and others, Shrines partially falls under "abstract rap," and sometimes Billy and Elucid's metaphors and tongue-twisters contribute to that too, but usually they contrast the trippiness with a loud, clear delivery and lyrics that are full of venom. Ferreira, Moor Mother, Pink Siifu, Quelle Chris, Akai Solo, Fielded, and others. Shrines immediately resonates as top-tier work from these two, and from the album's many impressive guests: Earl Sweatshirt, R.A.P.
Billy also put out Terror Management since then and Elucid has put out a couple recent releases too, but these guys are never too prolific for their own good. Armand Hammer - the duo of veteran New York underground rap greats Billy Woods and Elucid - are back with their first album since 2018's great Paraffin, and first since Billy got some pleasantly unexpected, long-overdue acclaim for last year's Hiding Places with Kenny Segal.
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