Shabazz Palaces Readying New Album It’s a Style Sport

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Ishmael Butler will return on October 23 with a new Shabazz Palaces album for Sub Pop. It’s a Style Sport, the follow-up to his consecutive mini-albums Exotic Birds of Prey and Robed in Rareness, is produced by Butler and Erik Blood and features contributions from Marquette Miller, Thaddillac, Evan Flory-Barnes, Gerald “Tugboat” Turner, Kassa Overall, and Carlos Overall. New song “Ahh World (I Won the Alpha Bet)” leads the LP; check it out below.

It’s a Style Sport:01 Ahh World (I Won the Alpha Bet)02 Field Notes03 Show Me Missouri in Mink04 Jheri Curl Jump05 Deadstock Dude06 Tongue in Chic07 Heliocentric Immortality Manifesto H.I.M.08 Olivia According to Touch09 Money Can’t Save Your Mind10 From One Future to Another

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect release date.

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