Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal have announced that their collab LP DOOMED! will arrive on August 14 via Backwoodz. “In recent years, Kenny made it very clear that he wasn’t trying to keep having one or two beats on my projects; he wanted to build something,” Open Mike Eagle said of the record’s origins. “I was able to convince him to let me use a couple beats for Neighborhood Gods Unlimited with the caveat that we would focus on our thing next. Then my relationship fell apart right when we started working, and it was like, ‘Perfect, I have a lot to say about this.’”
He added: “Each vision is a crashed airplane halfway on the border of dream and nightmare, bitter and sweet, sadness and freedom. Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet. I used each one as a canvas to paint my impression of a dead world.”
The album’s first single, “Unfinished Concrete Initials” featuring Hemlock Ernst (a.k.a. the rap moniker of Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring), is out now. Check that out below, and pre-order DOOMED! here.
