A voice at the beginning of INTERFERENCE PATTERN introduces the listen by observing how every day has a relationship to four other days — not proceeding it but rather scattered throughout the past, and that in turn is the disruption to our timeline. ELUCID indeed is a disruptor. In 2024, the NYC underground rapper established himself as the experimental virtuoso pushing Armand Hammer’s boundaries further beyond the contemporary with his listmaking solo effort, REVELATOR. His latest offering isn’t exactly defined as a proper album — perhaps a mixtape would be a better descriptor — but nevertheless, its drop on one of the last days of December segueing us into the strange of this New Year very much feels like an exclamation point on his desire to warp listener’s realities through an uncanny, psychedelic vision of noise-rap.

Don’t look for a tracklisting on this one, however. The listen melds out like an evolving form of sonic matter as one, 41-minute-long distortion collage. Errant vocals and field samples from both the surrounding waking world and others reshaped through a flux of darkly smeared and hyper-sped production focus themselves in and out of the foreground, giving it a kaleidoscopically telepathic effect. ELUCID voice doesn’t enter the frame until nearly 7-minutes in across a chopped, percussive breakdown before heavier waves crush over him.

The ensuing fleet of bars laid over cosmic free jazz arrangements twist into a sci-fi experiment of sound before being dispersed across multiverses into softer waves of stardust and glitching energy. As “Doves” — the 2024 bonus track featuring Benjamin Booker from Armand Hammer’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips — reemerges in its tail end in the form of an alternative spiritual body disintegrating soulfully through its final moments in static snow, ELUCID has again proving himself a foil to rap’s boundaries by breaking down continuums.

ELUCID’s INTERFERENCE PATTERN is available now.

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