ELUCID at Rough Trade Bristol
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A gig held at Rough Trade Bristol on Tuesday 4th February. The event starts at 20:00.


ELUCID • www.instagram.com/cobratoof
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A raw, crackling urgency runs through rapper-producer ELUCID’s new album REVELATOR like an underground power line. There is no space here for sepia-toned reminiscences or indulgent self-mythologizing. Intellectual rabbit holes have been filled in with concrete and rebar - there is nowhere to hide and no off ramp from the audio Autobahn that ELUCID has fashioned - a renegade Robert Moses with gold fronts, bulldozing the homes of the powerful and the complicit. REVELATOR brims with the energy of now, with a refusal to look away. Carpe diem in a murder one mask.

Born in Jamaica, Queens, ELUCID has been on the cutting edge of New York’s underground scene since the mid-2000s. From the beginning, he has defied both convention and expectation. He ran with Okayplayer darlings Tanya Morgan, but his own music eschewed their throwback charm for glitchy noise experiments and bass-swamped culture jamming. His 2016 debut studio project Save Yourself (re-released in a deluxe edition last year) announced him in earnest. But in recent years, his Armand Hammer releases with partner-in-crime billy woods have received significant attention and acclaim. Serving as a follow-up to his last solo album - 2022’s comparatively balmy I Told Bessie - ELUCID hoped to “re-distinguish” himself with REVELATOR, setting himself apart amidst the increasing attention around the music he and his friends are making together.
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14+ event.
Presented by DM Generation.
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DM events • www.linktr.ee/dm.online

Entry requirements: 14+

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