Chocolate Rain Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. Fever Dream
2. Guitar
3. Heart of Stone
4. When We Go There
5. Burnt Sky
6. One Door Closes
7. None of This is Real
8. Year In Review
9. Fire Over Me
10. JUNO
11. Bright Side of the Sun

Though they may not have intended to do so, Naptowns trinity, also known as 81355 (pronounced BLESS), rang out as revolutionaries with their 2021 debut record This Time Ill be of Use. When Oreo Jones, Sirius Blvck, and Sedcairn come together, genre evaporates into enthralling poeticism and sonic hypnosis. Their sophomore LP Bad Dogs, releasing July 11th on Joyful Noise Recordings, acts as an expansive continuation of 81355s signature sound: an angelic, gritty, enthralling urban hymnal for the disillusioned mind.

As the texturally emotive punctum of its cover art (painted by Stockholm based artist Julia de Ruvo) conveys, the heart of Bad Dogs draws its perseverance from the wild reservation dogs pulsing through the rust-hued indigenous lands of New Mexico and beyond. They are untethered in their roaming, sacred in their fierce communal belonging, yet undefined by a physical place. A vital essence mirrored by 81355: boundaryless, primal creative cultivation that defies what some may attempt to categorize as hip hop or progressive rap.