Shabazz Palaces Announce New Album, Share New Song “Shine a Light”: Listen

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Shabazz Palaces have announced a new album. It’s called Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star, and it’s out July 14 via Sub Pop. The group have also shared a lyric video for a new song, “Shine a Light (feat. Thaddillac),” directed by Cristina T. Bercovitz and Jonathan Snipes of clipping. Watch it below. The new album is set to feature the Strokes’ Julian Casblanacas, Thundercat, Gamble and Huff, and more. According to a press release, the album tells the story of a “sentient being from somewhere else” named Quazarz. In a statement about the persona, Ishmael Butler a.k.a. Palaceer Lazaro writes:

I, Quazarz, Born On A Gangster Star, son only of Barbara Dream Caster and Reginald The Dark Hoper - he who rides on light - dreamer of the seventh dream and kissed eternal by Awet the Sun Scented - who far from home I found my same self differents in those constellies that be Dai at my weap-side immediate and all us Water Guild affiliates who revelries in the futures passed recordings and ceremonies  flexing resplendent  in the Paradise Sportif armor -  raising these musics a joy/cry that way into these aquadescentdiamondized ethers of the Migosphere here on Drake world. Welcome To Quazarz.

Shabazz Palaces’ last album was 2014’s Lese Majesty. Find their upcoming tour dates below.

Shabazz Palaces:

05-13 Seattle, WA - Upstream Music Fest + Summit 2017
08-16 Portland, OR - The Star Theater
08-18 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
08-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theatre
08-20 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
08-23 Austin, TX - Mohawk (Outdoor Stage)
08-24 Dallas, TX - Club Dada
08-25 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
08-26 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
08-27 Charleston, SC - Music Farm
08-28 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
08-30 Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups
08-31 Detroit, MI - El Club
09-02 Montreal, Quebec - Theatre Fairmount
09-05 Boston, MA - The Sinclair
09-06 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
09-07 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
09-08 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-11 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
09-15-17 Chicago, IL - Riot Fest at Douglas Park

 Watch Shabazz Palaces perform at Pitchfork Music Festival 2011:

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