Iceboy Violet - Not a Dream But a Controlled Explosion [Cassette]

Fixed Abode

£8.10

Format: MC
Catalogue No.: FIX009
Barcode: 5060644135495
Release Date: 04 Aug 2023
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

 Iceboy Violet is a rapper, producer and performer searching for personal and collective catharsis in the dark of the club.
 ‘Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion’ is a project about the role desire and fantasy plays in our lives. What is considered fake is constantly constructing the world we want to live in and the people we want to be, as we brush up against fantasy, as we feel the everlasting tug of desire, our reality is pressed into shape almost entirely by daydreaming, hallucination, and yearning.
 Follows 2022 critical breakthrough, ‘The Vanity Project’, as well as numerous high profile and high-calibre collaborations with artists including Loraine James, Blackhaine, Space Afrika, Slikback, aya and many more.
 “Violet’s vision of rap music is strikingly individual: vivid, adventurous and laced with anxiety, fragility and fluidity.” - Resident Advisor
 “Iceboy’s alternately hypnotic and abrasive bars have quickly pushed them to the front lines of Manchester’s avant garde.” - The FADER
 “Iceboy Violet twists metal, rap, grime, and noise into an emotional punch in the gut.” - The Quietus
 For fans of Blackhaine, Coby Sey, Klein.
 Available to independent retailers as a dark shell cassette with printed liner notes in a clear case.
 Press - Reviews in The Quietus, Loud & Quiet, DJ (Album Of The Month), The Wire, Louder Than War. Features in Loud & Quiet, Dazed, Resident Advisor, Lost & Sound podcast.
 Radio - 6 Music Tom Ravenscroft, Mary Anne Hobbs, Reprezent.
 Online - The Quietus, Clash, FADER, RA, Nialler 9, Organ Thing.

Tracklisting
Not A Dream (Intro)
Street Dogs Have Wings
Black Gold
Wounded Coogi
Refracted
Ekklipse
Paris, Bradford
Pablo’s Cathedral