standing on the corner – Gimme My Gun
Brooklyn collective standing on the corner have been doing things their own way for long enough that their catalogue reads less like a discography and more like an ongoing art project with occasional points of contact with the music industry. “Gimme My Gun” is out now on streaming via XL Recordings, taken from their second self-titled album, which first surfaced on physical media last September with minimal announcement and no conventional rollout. That much, at least, is consistent with how they operate.
The collective sit at an intersection that doesn’t map cleanly onto genre categories, pulling from jazz, experimental music, and rap in ways that tend to resist easy description. Their work with Earl Sweatshirt has brought them wider attention, but “Gimme My Gun” is its own thing, and hearing it properly, rather than as a physical rarity, feels like the point.
I wasn’t expecting it to land this well on first listen.
