Last year’s standout from Armand Hammer, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, heard billy woods and ELUCID digging even deeper into blistered, experimental noise beat production, making for the NYC underground hip-hop duo’s arguably darkest exclamative mark to ruminate on societal decay. Where billy woods is like the knife exacting wordsmith precision within Armand Hammer’s flow, ELUCID can be heard as the jagged edge of their boundlessly innovative equation. With “THE WORLD IS DOG”, the opener and highlight from ELUCID’s just-released new solo effort, REVELATOR, it’s easy to imagine him stepping even further off Armand Hammer’s last point into further oblivion. Working alongside avant-garde electronic artist, Jon Nellen, and jazz bassist Luke Stewart, the three produce a flurry of fight instincts of the brain and synth synapses rallied hardcore by free-spiraling rhythm staircases into the abyss. “Chaos hour, shadow play / Hammers hang on loop / I’m chewing at the bit / Hard to mark the day / Be not afraid,” ELUCID proclaims. He says he sought energy inspo on this one from the creative mind of Miles Davis, but left to his own devices, nothing about this sounds tethered to anything. This “Dog” is feral.

Directed by: Ryosuke Tanzawa

ELUCID’s REVELATOR is available now on Fat Possum.