Album Review: billy woods - Aethiopes

“For his latest, Aethiopes, he’s working in tandem with Preservation, a producer with a list of collaborators and credits as long as woods’. The pair have worked together before on a few tracks for woods’ recent albums, but this time Pres is bought all the way in; he’s tuned into the rapper’s heady concepts and is dreaming up the vision right alongside him from first thought to last. This symbiosis between producer and rapper is key to the album’s unmitigated success. While woods is drawing from pockets of African and European history, Pres is pulling obscure samples from geographical sources that perfectly interlock with the tone and concept.”

billy woods’ new album with producer Preservation is horrifically wondrous. My full thoughts are in my review over on BPM.