This Friday, Kevin Martin is releasing a new album—his first in seven years—as The Bug. Titled Fire, the album was fueled by this burning garbage can of a world. Martin revealed of the album that it “emerges from some basic questions—the world is a fucking mess and what do you do about that? Go with the flow? Challenge it? Challenge yourself? I can only move forward, and that’s what you can hear on ‘Fire.'” But before we hear the project in full, The Bug has shared a new single featuring Moor Mother called “Vexed.”
“I had worked/toured with Camae a.k.a. Moor Mother on the Zonal album Wrecked, and we subsequently toured some The Bug feat. Moor Mother shows together,” Martin said. “We found we had a shared taste for musical pyromania, verbal intensity, and dropping mindbombs. (That and both being rabid hip-hop headz with an encyclopedic knowledge of its history, and particular love of Mobb Deep/Wu tang etc…) When I asked Cam if she would use the platform to unleash her frustrations, she replied, all guns blazing, with ‘Vexed.’” Moor Mother added: “Anytime I work with The Bug I am always thinking of the live performance aspect. So I wanted to do something I knew would go over really well in a live setting.”
Listen to the menacing track below.
