Name: Town's Dead
Brand: Kojaque

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DIF477LPS

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r19257445]

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

 Comes with 12 Page Lyric and Photo Booklet. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-06-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5400863043735

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

DIF477CD

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Download code: No

Digisleeve with 12 Page Booklet

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5400863043766

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

Artist

Kojaque

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Different

Albums of the Year 2021

Different is a London-based electronic music label that is part of the [PIAS] Entertainment Group. The company, known as Different Recordings for copyright and licensing credits, has been responsible for releasing successful dance records from artists such as *Etienne De Crecy*, *Vitalic*, *Tiga*, *Crystal Castles*, *Agoria*, *Crystal Fighters* and *The Hacker*. Other notable artists on the label include *Claptone*, *Abstraxion*, *Mr NÔ* and *M.S.K.*.

With a focus on electronic music, Different has built a reputation for releasing innovative and cutting-edge tracks. Their roster includes both established names in the industry as well as up-and-coming talent, ensuring a diverse range of sounds and styles.

Some of their most notable releases include Etienne De Crecy's original Super Discount album and Vitalic's critically acclaimed OK Cowboy. These albums showcase the label's commitment to pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Kojaque is part of a new wave of Irish artists flooding the world with blistering and sophisticated literature, film and music - ideas and work that emerged from a social revolution stonewalled by late-stage capitalism. Welcome to that state of mind, where the path less travelled is the only one worth taking.

Town’s Dead is a mind-bending, explosive and expansive trip, documenting a tumultuous love triangle that unfolds across New Year’s Eve in a place where gentrification poses as much a threat as the violence of street dealers. Sonically, the record smashes any previous expectations, stretching an aural palate that leaps from rage to solace, from clattering musical combustions to tender ruminations. The tremendous scope and scale of Town’s Dead demonstrates an artist utterly untethered to assumptions about what a particular voice or genre should be, and instead explores radical musical territory.

Dark corners of parks, bedrooms, clubs, streets, and psyches are excavated, and pouring over the rubble is an artist who refuses to conform, unafraid of the vulnerabilities that are exposed when the voice rings true, because there’s just no point in being anything else. Through breakups and breakdowns, Town’s Dead teeters on the brink, spilling from the mind of a singular artist, onto streets populated by broken hearts and scaffolded by a broken system. This is a siren, traversing the stoned fuzz of isolation, the whiplash of complicated relationships, the frustrations and euphoria of love, the mundanity of monotony, the demented gaslighting of gentrification, and the hope that can still emerge from the burned-out beauty of it all. In an album liberated from the constraints of genre, the title track rages against the social cleansing of working class neighbourhoods. Sex N Drugs pairs the ennui of a late night piano lounge with an even later night lonely spliff-lighting spooning session. Curtains is an epic within an epic, an internal musical and lyrical dialogue powered by a locomotive engine bursting towards the light at the end of the tunnel.

Town's Dead

Music GB

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