New York, NY (Top40 Charts) DJ Shadow has unveiled a new song from his ambitious double album - Our Pathetic Age- out November 15 on Mass Appeal. "Urgent, Important, Please Read" features MCs
Rockwell Knuckles, Tef Poe (both from St. Louis), and Daemon.
Our Pathetic Age represents an intensely creative period for the pioneering musician, and his most ambitious work yet. The first album is all DJ Shadow, 11 original, instrumental tracks that include his deepest dive yet into original composition and his first fully orchestrated piece of music. The second half is a full album of vocal collaborations, ranging from Run The Jewels, Nas and
Dave East to Samuel T. Herring, Paul
Banks and Wiki, Inspectah Deck,
Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, and Brooklyn MC Stro. Shadow also reunited with his early Solesides collaborators Lateef The Truthseeker and Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), and partnered with fellow Bay Area musicians Fantastic Negrito and Jumbo is Dr.ama.
DJ Shadow has shared two other songs from Our Pathetic Age thus far: "Rocket Fuel" with De La Soul, and the "hard-hitting" (Rolling Stone) instrumental "Rosie."
DJ Shadow's The Mountain Will Fall (released in 2016 on Mass Appeal) was widely celebrated and led to a performance of "Nobody Speak" with
Run The Jewels on the
Tonight Show, his first #1 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart, and nearly 100 dates of international touring that included Coachella and Pitchfork Paris. "Nobody Speak," deemed "brassy and bruising" by Rolling Stone, was featured in multiple films and commercials, and was the most played hip-hop song on alternative radio in 2018.
Our Pathetic Age Track List:
1. Nature Always Wins
2. Slingblade
3. Intersectionality
4. Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law
5. Juggernaut
6. Firestorm
7. Weightless
8. Rosie
9. If I Died Today
10. My Lonely Room
11. We Are Always Alone
12. Drone Warfare (feat. Nas, Pharaohe Monch)
13. Rain On Snow (feat. Inspectah Deck,
Ghostface Killah, Raekwon)
14. Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)
15. C.O.N.F.O.R.M. (feat. Gift of Gab, Lateef The Truth Speaker, Infamous Taz)
16. Small Colleges (Stay With Me) (feat. Wiki, Paul Banks)
17. JoJo's Words (feat. Stro)
18.
Kings & Queens (feat. Run the Jewels)
19. Taxin' (feat. Dave East)
20. Dark Side of the
Heart (feat. Fantastic Negrito, Jumbo is Dr.ama)
21. I Am Not A Robot (Interlude)
22. Urgent, Important, Please Read (feat.
Rockwell Knuckles, Tef Poe, Daemon)
23. Our Pathetic Age (feat. Samuel T. Herring)
