Shrines (Armand Hammer album)
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| Shrines | ||||
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| Released | June 5, 2020 | |||
| Genre | Underground hip-hop | |||
| Length | 43:13 | |||
| Label | Backwoodz Studioz | |||
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Shrines is the fourth studio album by American hip-hop group Armand Hammer.[1] It was released via Backwoodz Studioz in 2020.[2] The album's cover is a photograph of a NYPD police officer about to tranquilize and capture the tiger Ming of Harlem.[3]
Billy Woods and Elucid toured Europe as Armand Hammer in 2019.[4] While in Edinburgh, they started writing a song titled "Bitter Cassava" and made demos.[5] They recorded the song after they got back to New York City.[5] Once a few things were figured out, they started work on Shrines.[5]
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 8.0/10[6] |
| The Quietus | favorable[7] |
| Stereogum | favorable[8] |
Eden Tizard of The Quietus stated that "Shrines sees a new kind of clarity takes shape, a departure from 2018's monolithic Paraffin."[7] He added: "Where production there was thick and volatile like boiled tar, Shrines is comparatively spacious, the density of the bars even more pronounced."[7] Tom Breihan of Stereogum described Shrines as "an album about people trying to build utopias on perilous and unstable piles of garbage."[8] He stated that "Armand Hammer take in the poison-cloud existential joke of a world around them, and they answer that joke with images as poetic as the tiger at the window."[8]
