Black Up is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn’t come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.—palaceer pink gators. Produced by Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands. It was recorded and mixed in Lixx-alog by Blood.

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• Promo Photo - Image by Leif Podhajsky/Original band photo by David Belisle
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• Cover - Of Light
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• Press - Shabazz Palaces feature in The Wire (Dec. 2010)

• +1 Feature on Pitchfork
• Blurt Album Review Black Up July 2011
• Daytrotter Session, Welcome to the Warping Spider House, July 2011
• Fader Feature, Gen F: Shabazz Palaces, July 2011
• NY Magazine Feature Steely, Brilliant Hip-Hop Mysticism June 2011
• NPR Feature Grind and Shine June 2011
• AV Club Album Review Black Up June 2011
• Live Footage from Pitchfork 2011 Festival
• Video interview with Pitchfork TV (Pitchfork Festival 2011)
• The New Yorker, Feature (Aug 29, 2011)
• New York Times Live Review July 2011
• Band to Wtach: Rolling Stone Magazine
• Noisey.com Feature
• Daytrotter Session
• Village Voice Feature on "Black Up"
• Pitchfork "Best New Music" review of Black Up
• NPR Feature on Seattle Hip-Hop Scene
• Seattle Times Feature on "Black Up"
• LA Times Album Review of "Black Up"
• The Fader-Feature
• MTV Hive Feature
• LA Record- Feature
• Filter Magazine Album Review of "Black Up"
• AOL BVX "Need to Know"
• Live Review in THE FADER
• New York Times Show Review
• Shabazz Palaces is the first ever Stranger Genius for Music
• The Stranger's "Taste That Crown" feature on Shabazz Palaces
• Pitchfork Rising feature on Shabazz Palaces