Listen to this: Armand Hammer’s Snakes & Ladders

I open with this caveat: I haven't had a ton of time to digest the surprise Armand Hammer record that dropped this week. Billy Woods and Elucid rarely miss, though, and my initial reaction is that Snakes & Ladders ranks among their best. It doesn't have the seamless throughline production-wise that their collabs with Alchemist (Haram and Mercy) do, but it's still clearly the singular vision of the two men at its center. Ominous noises dance in the background, blasts of noise add dashes of industrial rage, bass lines throb, and saxophone bleats call out to the sky. Woods and Elucid have always had excellent taste in production, but here they … Read the full story at The Verge.