BENNY THE BUTCHER x 38 SPESH - "Cocaine Cowboys 2" LPBenny The Butcher x 38 Spesh Cocaine Cowboys 2 LP (Air Vinyl, 2021) "Most fans of hardcore Hip Hop know and love Benny The Butcher and 38 Spesh's 2018 joint album Stabbed & Shot, yet many aren't aware that before that there was Cocaine Cowboys. The duo dropped this potent joint mixtape back in 2008. They split the project into two parts and added a couple hard to find bonus cuts for the vinyl release. Plus, new alternate art by the one and only Manuel

meditative and hypnotic kind of music that still feels relevant today

elephants and crickets that bookend the LP

and BROOMDUSTERS is a dark solitary take on the signature sound of one of the greats of modern Japanese psychedelic rock: late-night / early-morning comedown blues and black

and plummet into a negative space populated by an unadorned clicking

Like the rest of Garden of Eden

Filled with optimistic

and lone proprietor of the SOPHOMORE LOUNGE label

The next day the duo entered the studio with guitarist Bill Orcutt—a trusted collaborator of the drummer stretching back a decade

a (home-made) glass harmonium

some theorized that this was Metheny's "fuck you" to his label Geffen and perhaps a way of purposely ending his contract on a sour note

you could get the impression that there is even a savage humour or a cosmic joke underlying the whole endeavour

Recorded by Jim Marlowe (Tropical Trash