Not to make this Anticon week–see our 13 & God stream–or anything, but one of its longtime artists, Sole, recently wrapped his first full-length since officially leaving the label early last year. And true to his past work, Hello, Cruel World (available July 19th on Fake Four, Inc.) is a bewildering effort featuring his longtime cohorts the Skyrider Band and such welcome guests as Xiu Xiu, Lil B, Pictureplane and Sage Francis.
The following premiere of “Pianos Falling” is not from those sessions, but it does feature the battery acid beats of Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco: