Name: This Time I'll Be of Use
Brand: 81355

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

37d021CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

617308003437

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

37d021LP

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Black

617308003475

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

81355

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

37d03d

37d03d is an artist collective composed of over 100 talented artists, including a436584, a511190, and a818925. This dynamic group has hosted incredible gatherings at l303437 in Berlin and l281828 in Brooklyn, NY. The name of the collective is PEOPLE spelled upside down, representing their unique ability to turn things around creatively.

With such a diverse range of artists under its umbrella, 37d03d offers an extraordinary selection of music that caters to every taste. From mesmerizing melodies to captivating lyrics, their catalog showcases the immense talent and creativity within the collective.

As you explore our e-commerce website, you'll discover an array of albums and merchandise from *a436584*, *a511190*, *a818925*, and many other exceptional artists associated with 37d03d. Immerse yourself in their groundbreaking soundscapes and support these innovative musicians by adding their work to your collection today!

81355 (pronounced ‘bless’) is a meeting of the minds between three pillars of the Indianapolis music scene; Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, and Sedcairn Archives. While the three have worked together in the past, this is their first start-to-finish collaboration, and the result is the stunning and distinctive debut Time I’ll Be of Use.

Simultaneously mystical and stark, somber and danceable, the project grapples with hard-wired truths and imagines alternate realities with better futures. These lucid wanderings amongst the street fires sound like a cross between the ghost of progressive electronic music of the 70s with its innovative eccentricities, and acrobatic word- play delivered with sharp resolve. While surrealist in its metaphors and abstraction, it doesn’t betray a present awareness. Reflecting on Black struggle in the pandemic- ridden and democracy faltering landscape of 2020, each member arrived from a synchronistic space, and the recording process ended up being largely intuitive. 

These three musical vagabonds have met up to find even themselves surprised with the results. Drawing inspiration from the likes of biting poetic commentary of the late Naptown residents, Etheridge Knight and Kurt Vonnegut, OJ summons a golden-era flow and paints a picture of the group’s influences, surroundings, and trajectory in one fell swoop.

Sirius, with poetry present even in his speaking voice, adds, “It’s a way to carve our story in the sky before we’re gone. This is us choosing to believe that this time, things will be different. It is an affirmation to the universe. This time I’ll see the whole blessing. This time I’ll be of use.”

This Time I'll Be of Use

Music GB