Listen to Shabazz Palaces’ New Song With Thundercat, “Since C.A.Y.A.”

Shabazz Palaces have shared a new song from their forthcoming album Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star. Produced by Knife Knights (aka Shabazz’s Ishmael Butler and Erik Blood), it’s called “Since C.A.Y.A.” and features Thundercat on bass. Listen to the track below; scroll down for Butler’s statement on it. Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star is out July 14 via Sub Pop. It’s one of two new Shabazz records arriving that day. The other LP is called Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines, and it is Born on a Gangster Star’s “extra-spatial twin.”

Prior to “Since C.A.Y.A.,” Shabazz shared “Shine a Light” from Born on a Gangster Star. In addition to Thundercat, the record includes contributions from the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, Gamble and Huff, and more.

Revisit Pitchfork’s 2014 Guest List interview with Ishmael Butler.

 

In the era of Quazarz youth, The Central District of Seattle, Washington shone wildly vibrant and pulsed strong like the muscles of the heart. Brave Forerunners, from warm points south, had arrived settled and soon began to born and unleash dazzle of all sorts from this green remote. It was here on a sunny, July day over a free lunch at the C.A.Y.A. baseball field watching the Frontiersman smash an east side club to dust, that Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star—with confused terror then resolute determination—first looked his dreams in the eye. Thee rest as they say, is mystery. The Heritage House, Lowe’s Grocery and One Stop Burgers are gone; fact is, from that glorious epoch there remain few vestiges… I’m one of them.

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