Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based drummer and producer Kassa Overall has announced his new album, Animals, which is out May 26 via Warp. The album features contributions from Danny Brown, Shabazz Palaces, Vijay Iyer, Wiki, Laura Mvula, Lil B, Francis and the Lights, Nick Hakim, and more. Watch the video for a new single, “Make My Way Back Home,” and find Overall’s forthcoming tour dates, below.
“We call ourselves humans, right,” Overall said in a statement. “But we kind of do animalistic shit towards each other. We justify immorality by almost stripping people of their humanity. He’s an animal, so we can treat him as such. All these different kinds of little questions in these songs point to questions about humanity: Am I free? Or am I a circus animal? These questions intersect with the way I think about race.”
Read about Kassa Overall’s I Think I’m Good in Pitchfork’s feature “Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2020.”
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Animals:
01 Anxious Anthony [ft. Anthony Ware]
02 Ready to Ball
03 Clock Ticking [ft. Danny Brown and Wiki]
04 Still Ain’t Find Me [ft. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King and Ian Finkelstein]
05 Make My Way Back Home [ft. Nick Hakim and Theo Croker]
06 The Lava Is Calm [ft. Theo Croker]
07 No It Ain’t [ft. Andrae Murchison]
08 So Happy [ft. Laura Mvula and Francis and the Lights]
09 It’s Animals
10 Maybe We Can Stay [ft. J. Hoard]
11 The Score Was Made [ft. Vijay Iyer]
12 Going Up [ft. Lil B, Shabazz Palaces and Francis and the Lights]
Kassa Overall:
05-04 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues *
05-07 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel *
05-09 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl *
05-10 Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall *
05-11 St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall *
06-06 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
06-07 Detroit, MI – Marble Bar
06-08 Toronto, Ontario – TD Music Hall at Allied Music Centre
06-10 Ellenville, NY – Love, Velma at The Mod House
06-12 Marlboro, NY – The Falcon
06-13 Philadelphia, PA – The Lounge at World Cafe Live
06-14 Creative Alliance – Baltimore, MD
06-15 Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
06-16 Washington, D.C. – CapitalBop
06-23 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
08-12 Dorset, England – We Out Here Festival
08-27 Port Townsend, WA – Thing Festival
09-14 Oslo, Norway – By:Larm
* with Digable Planets
