Shabazz Palaces veröffentlichen ihr drittes, spektrales Album Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star weltweit am 14. Juli via Sub Pop. Das Album, inklusive der Highlights "Shine A Light" (ft. Thaddillac), "Since Caya" und "Moon Whip Quaz" (ft. Darrius), wurde produziert von Knife Knights (aka Ishmael Butler und Erik Blood) und aufgenommen und gemixt von Blood in den Protect and Exalt Labs: einem ,Black Space" in Seattle. Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star ist der Nachfolger und der erste Schub an neuem Material seit dem hochgelobten Lese Majesty aus dem Jahr 2014. Das Konzept um Quazarz: Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star serves as both an introduction and tells the tale of Quazarz, a sentient being from somewhere else, an observer sent here to Amurderca to chronicle and explore as a musical emissary. What he finds in our world is a cutthroat place, a landscape where someone like him could never quite feel comfortable amidst all the brutality and alternative facts and death masquerading as connectivity. The Palaceer of Shabazz Palaces says of his extraterrestrial persona: "I, Quazarz, Born On A Gangster Star, son only of Barbara Dream Caster and Reginald The Dark Hoper - he who rides on light - dreamer of the seventh dream and kissed eternal byAwet the Sun Scented - who far from home I found my same self differents in those constellies that be Dai at my weap-side immediate and all us Water Guild affiliates who revelries in the futures passed recordings and ceremonies flexing resplendent in the Paradise Sportif armor - raising these musics a joy/cry that way into these aquadescent diamondized ethers of the Migospherehere on Drake world. Welcome To Quazarz."