Voir Dire, by Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist

Voir Dire

by Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist

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eManRenaissanc What?!? Earl is sick as always. I've been waiting for an album by him to show up on bc. And Alchemist brings the heat of course, as he's been doing for decades.

iativos Been waiting on this one for years. It didn't disappoint 🔥
Earl & ALC came through and delivered like UPS Favorite track: Free the Ruler.

lone3starr This album feels like continuous prayer. There’s no cleaner producer than the chemist himself. My soundtrack til end. Thanks. Favorite track: 27 Braids.

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1.	100 High Street 01:34	buy track
2.	Vin Skully 01:53	buy track
3.	Sentry (feat. MIKE) 02:21	buy track
4.	Heat Check 02:29	buy track
5.	Mancala (feat. Vince Staples) 02:41	buy track
6.	27 Braids 02:05	buy track
7.	Mac Deuce 02:08	buy track
8.	Sirius Blac 02:08	buy track
9.	Dead Zone 03:07	buy track
10.	The Caliphate (feat. Vince Staples) 03:50	buy track
11.	Free the Ruler 02:26	buy track

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The question of whether you want an MC like Earl Sweatshirt and a producer like The Alchemist to test each other’s limits is on some level an existential one: Like, isn’t the fact that the dreamlike flights of VOIR DIRE feel like comfort food a testament to how much they’ve already stretched our conception of hip-hop? Ten years out from his first “real” album (2013’s Doris), Earl sounds grateful, fulfilled, and yet no less enigmatic than when he was a kid, holding space for a history of Black diasporic art from Martinican poet Aimé Césaire to the Swazi-Xhosa South African pop legend Miriam Makeba without sacrificing the hermetic quality that made him so appealing in the first place. In Vince Staples, he continues to find the straight-talking foil he needs (“The Caliphate,” “Mancala”), and in Al a producer who can nudge him just a little closer to the hallelujahs he’s either too cool or evasive to embrace (“Mancala”). And at 26 minutes, the whole thing easily asks to be played again.

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released October 6, 2023

All songs are produced by The Alchemist.

All lyrics are written by Thebe Kgositsile, except for "Sentry", by Kgositsile and Michael Bonema and "Mancala" and "The Caliphate", by Vincent Staples; all music is composed by Alan Daniel Maman.

℗ 2023 Tan Cressida, Inc./ALC

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