SCOTTISH hip-hop stalwarts Stanley Odd release their fourth album ‘STAY ODD’ on 12th April via their own label, Handome Tramp Records. It marks their first full-length release in over six years.
The band have been drip-feeding us one impressive single after another in the run up to its release, showcasing a diverse and completely uncompromising approach to their craft and ensuring that every track has been as unpredictable as the last. Putting their own unique spin on classic hip-hop tropes, they’ve swayed between global news themes and mystical tales of folklore but have done so while remaining totally and unapologetically themselves.
Latest single ‘Undo Redo’ is another blast of Stanley Odd magic that opens in dark, pensive fashion before sparking to life with a quick rhythmic pulse. Described in a press release as “a journey through the netherworld of late nights and the 7 day cycle of wreckhedonism”, it’s an immersive listen that shifts between intense, dark dancefloor passages and ethereal vocals.
The track will feature on ‘STAY ODD’, of which which frontman Dave Hook, aka Solareye says: “If there’s anything that holds the record together, it’s that thread of the magic of everyday things; the sort of oddities of the ordinary.”
The album will be accompanied by a 56-page book which is designed to give an even deeper insight into its creative process.
Hook says: “It’s a lyric book, it’s a scrapbook, it’s a notebook, it’s a picture book; it showcases all the artwork, some of the video content, fan photos and – of course – the words and stories of the songs.”
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