Exotic Birds of Prey
EP • Mar 29 / 2024 • 7 songs, 23m 2s
Experimental Hip Hop
West Coast Hip Hop
Noteable
7.1
/ 10
Ishmael Butler assembles a crew of interstellar rap voyagers on a brief, echoey mixtape you might expect to find floating amid the space debris of an Afrofuturist universe.
Shabazz Palaces’s ‘Exotic Birds of Prey’ is paradoxically sparse in its construction but dense in its intense inscrutability.
7
/ 10
Following 'Robed in Rareness' from last fall, Shabazz Palaces continues a provisional series with the cryptic and digressive 'Exotic Birds of Prey'.