Description
Each song blends seamlessly from one to the next spread across the album’s 17 tracks, with the help from a standout supporting cast that includes Fly Anakin, Awon, Quelle Chris, Pink Siifu, billy woods, lojii, YUNGMORPHEUS, Tha God Fahim, Vic Spencer and Vuyo, among several others.
While there’s a sense of tension to the track titles and certainly some of the lyrics, the album’s pacing of 74bpm releases and soothes that tension at the same time. “It’s quite an unusual tempo for hip-hop I think,” OBB says. “It’s both really relaxed but at the same time it can feel hard-hitting and modern if you match it with the right vocals and the right flow.” He certainly achieved that flow with this LP, which is undoubtedly his finest and most ambitious undertaking to date.
74: Out of Time is available now via Coalmine Records. The album may be streamed through all major DSPs, and can be purchased on cassette and vinyl with various merch bundles available.
credits
• Production and mixing: Ol’ Burger Beats
• Mastering: Christian Obermayer at Strype Audio
• Design and artwork: Håvard Winther Gjelseth
Instruments:
• Flute: Pauline Neergård
• Saxophone: Guy Sion
• Trombone: Sigurd Malmedal Drågen
• Trumpet: Kristoffer Eikrem
• Scratches: DJ Chali