Name: If I Fail Are We Still Cool?
Brand: Patrick Paige II

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FP17662

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-30

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

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Standard:20

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767981176628

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

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Artist

Patrick Paige II

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Fat Possum

Fat Possum Records is a label that was established in 1991 with the sole purpose of recording R.L. Burnside. Over time, it evolved into a mission to discover and record the last remaining original bluesmen before they passed away. Despite facing various challenges such as difficult personalities, limited songs, and a raw sound that didn't fit the mainstream blues market, these artists possessed immense talent and truly lived the blues.

In recent years, Fat Possum has expanded its catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands alongside their traditional offerings.

Long before Patrick Paige II knew how to rip bass, he knew he wanted to fly. “Since I was little I was obsessed with aviation,” he recalls. “I wanted to be in the airforce until I got older and more conscious — no, I don’t wanna drop bombs on people for no fucking reason. But flying was an obsession that started young.” It’s a fixation that permeates his sophomore album If I Fail Are We Still Cool?, a collection of tenacious affirmations stitched together with in-flight interludes and an unshakable sense of ascension. Born and raised in Los Angeles, music became a part of Paige’s life from the get-go, as he learned the upright bass in middle school while playing the drums at his church on the weekends. Through their mutual friend Robbie, he met a kindred spirit and collaborator in Syd Bennett shortly after graduating high school in 2007. Bennett asked him to play bass in her new band, later known as The Internet. The rest — four critically-lauded albums, multiple world tours, Grammy and BET Award nominations, and collaborations with the likes of Kaytranada, Tyler the Creator, Janelle Monáe — is history. As the band grew, so did Paige as a solo artist. In May 2018, he put out his debut album Letters of Irrelevance. While on the road later that year with The Internet touring Hive Mind, Paige needed a way to further set his own intentions. What initially began as the makings of an EP quickly amassed into something more like a revelation, featuring the likes of Steve Lacy, Syd, Westside McFly, Saba, Ohana Bam, and Forte Bowie.

If I Fail Are We Still Cool?

Music GB