Following their last release, The Day Before Halloween - an imaginative, distorted-synth-driven concept album - Atmosphere returns with a refreshing new project, simply titled WORD? Steering back toward their signature sound, the album further highlights producer Ant's undeniable talents as the project leans into the classic boom-bap aesthetic, bringing a unique energy out of Slug's wisdom, wit and delivery. From onset, WORD? proves to be every bit an exercise in refining and advancing their craft as it is a harkening to earlier work. That is, while their releases have grown more broodingly cinematic, and increasingly concerned with the human condition and mortality, WORD? manages to reintroduce moments of levity and lightheartedness throughout, an approach seldom heard on their albums of late.

Tracklist:

Fleetwood
Something
Crumbs (feat. Evidence & Muja Messiah)
Woes
Strung (feat. Musab)
Clocked
Sleepless (feat. Nino Bless)
Distances
Carousel (feat. Nikki Jean)
Vanish
Pressed (feat. Anwar HighSign, BlackLiq, Sa-Roc, Haphduzn, and Lateef The Truthspeaker
Skull
Nekst
Barcade (feat. Aesop Rock & MF DOOM)

UPC: 826257033017
Label: Rhymesayers
Release Date: 10.8.21
Format: Vinyl Record

Atmosphere - WORD? [LP]