{"product_id":"earl-sweatshirt-the-alchemist-voir-dire-cd","title":"Earl Sweatshirt \u0026 The Alchemist - Voir Dire CD","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI’m not even going to pretend I’m any authority on hip hop, but I’ve had the latest Earl Sweatshirt \u0026amp; The Alchemist on repeat all morning!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMore of Earl’s trademark woozy stitching together of slice of life recordings with old soul samples, this time in collaboration with The Alchemist. For such a short LP (only 26mins) this is a DENSE set of recordings, weaving histories of Black culture into the present with a playful and humorous touch (and is that a reference to Biden’s Corn Pop brain fade??).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e----------\u003c\/p\u003e\nThe question of whether you want an MC like Earl Sweatshirt and a producer like The Alchemist to test each other’s limits is on some level an existential one: Like, isn’t the fact that the dreamlike flights of VOIR DIRE feel like comfort food a testament to how much they’ve already stretched our conception of hip-hop? Ten years out from his first “real” album (2013’s Doris), Earl sounds grateful, fulfilled, and yet no less enigmatic than when he was a kid, holding space for a history of Black diasporic art from Martinican poet Aimé Césaire to the Swazi-Xhosa South African pop legend Miriam Makeba without sacrificing the hermetic quality that made him so appealing in the first place. In Vince Staples, he continues to find the straight-talking foil he needs (“The Caliphate,” “Mancala”), and in Al a producer who can nudge him just a little closer to the hallelujahs he’s either too cool or evasive to embrace (“Mancala”). And at 26 minutes, the whole thing easily asks to be played again.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Inertia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67814002131126,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a1739991662_10.jpg?v=1708039478","url":"https:\/\/repressedrecords.com\/products\/earl-sweatshirt-the-alchemist-voir-dire-cd","provider":"Repressed Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}