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The “Truth Ugly” LP by Doseone, Fatboi Sharif, and Steel Tipped Dove is released on Fused Arrow and represents a collaborative album project by the three artists. As a release in the US hip-hop genre, the LP arrives on the Fused Arrow label, bringing the participating artists together in a physical format. The edition focuses on the collaborative work of Doseone, Fatboi Sharif, and Steel Tipped Dove, using the vinyl format to showcase the way the artists work together. With its clear focus on joint production and performance, the “Truth Ugly” LP on Fused Arrow is a concise addition to the current US hip-hop canon.

The "Invasion Body Camera" 12" by Fatboi Sharif & E L U C I D is released on Fused Arrow. The release documents a close collaboration between New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif and producer E L U C I D; the record credits Fatboi Sharif as writer and performer, while E L U C I D handles production, recording, mixing, and mastering.

Musically, the 12" falls within the experimental hip-hop spectrum, where jagged beats and dense sonics often provide the framework for concise, striking rap passages. Fatboi Sharif’s vocal delivery remains direct and sharply focused; Elucid contributes textured, often abstract production that creates a dense underlying mood, sharply outlining the vocals while still leaving room for atmospheric nuances.

As a Fused Arrow release, "Invasion Body Camera" joins a series of collaborative projects through which the label serves as a platform for experimental, beat‑driven hip-hop. The concise, focused 12" format places emphasis on production and voice, making the record a clear statement within the bodies of work of both artists.

All songs written & performed by Defcee *except where noted
All songs produced, engineered, mixed/mastered by steel tipped dove
Cover Photography by Tim Fish

The LP “To Live And Die In E.U.L.A.” by Rhys Langston is being released on Fused Arrow and marks his return to rap form with a large-scale, multi-producer album of twelve new tracks. On this concept record, Langston playfully and incisively explores the question of whether the social contract has long since been replaced by end user license agreements; he operates as a kind of “canary in the data mine,” weaving together political satire and personal moments. The album was recorded between December 2024 and May 2026 and is being released digitally as well as on vinyl.

Musically, Rhys Langston puts his melodic gifts and idiosyncratic songwriting front and center: the breakup rap ballad “it’s the fade out” and the trip-hop-infused title track showcase his feel for delicate melodies as well as densely detailed arrangements. Guest appearances come from, among others, Open Mike Eagle, Kwame Adu, PremRock, Phiik, nahhphet, and Old Grape God; beats are supplied by BLOOMCYCLE, Dick Chainey, pty, roper williams, SINAI, qnorapname, Ya Boy Pax, and Rhys Langston himself. Mastering and pressing are handled by Ya Boy Pax and Fused Arrow, respectively, with Fused Arrow overseeing the vinyl edition.

With the LP *Kingdom Music For The Hard Knocks* released on Fused Arrow, Cargo Cults presents the next level of their creativity while, on the whole, staying true to their style. The record relies on a dense mesh of rhythmic beats, warm basslines, and striking melodic motifs that oscillate between experimental hip-hop aesthetics and electronic tonal colors. Cargo Cults weave sample-based textures together with live‑sounding elements, striking a balance in which clear structure and improvisational moments coexist in equal measure. The arrangements are marked by restrained yet effective shifts in dynamics; brief instrumental passages make room for vocal entries and rhythmic ruptures without losing the focus on groove‑oriented compositions. Musically, the LP reveals a penchant for subtle details: washed‑out loops, pinpoint percussion, and a love of analog tone give the sound an immediate, physical presence on vinyl. On this release, Cargo Cults reaffirm their ability to reorder familiar influences and condense them into compact, atmospherically dense tracks. The result is an LP that both holds its own within the contemporary beat and alternative spectrum and further sharpens the artist’s distinctive expression.

Experimental rock power trio based in Philadelphia. Formed in the energetic D.I.Y. scene of Brattleboro, Vermont by Thomas Shadis (guitar) and Asher Johnson (drums), the sound of Lahnah grew from Shadis’ bent vision of the 2000’s radio rock he grew up on coupled with Asher’s taste in fusion, jazz, and experimental classical music. Bassist Griff Jurchak joined the trio in 2023 after their move to Philly, bringing his experience in punk, jazz, and hip hop. Lahnah’s music is collagelike and dynamic, with whiplash arrangements that have established them as a formidable live act. After 8 years of blood, self-released projects, lineup changes, and endless shows, Lahnah is ready to present their debut LP.

Antinomian Pandemonium 12 " LP + Lyrics Zine

You open your eyes. Something is different. You wonder “where am I?” You’re close, but the real question is, “when are you?” Inexplicably you find yourself in 1970’s New York City. You know even before you’ve stepped outside. The vibe. Something in the air is a little… analogue. Next thing you know, you’re walking down a rain-slicked borough side street, having deep existential conversations and moments of revelation. And best of all? You’ve got the perfect soundtrack to ponder the human condition in an era better suited to both pondering and being conditionally human.

That album is this album. Antinomian Pandemonium. The latest creation from Hip-Hop Innovators and Luminaries MC Paul Barman and Kenny Segal.

These aren’t just visionaries and pillars of Boundary-Pushing-Rap™. Sure they’re responsible for genre expanding albums (It’s Very Stimulating, Paullelujah) and (Hiding Places by billy woods, Casual Horns, Dog by Jefferson Park Boys). They’re also two guys who’ve LIVED LIVES. “What does that mean?” Well… For one… Paul is cited first for the word “vajayjay’ by the Oxford English Dictionary. For another, Kenny beat Joey Santiago (yes THAT Joey Santiago from The Pixies) at Guitar Hero.

Let’s stay focused on the topic at hand. You probably want to know, “what does the album sound like?” Kenny says the music’s “just me and Paul being me and Paul.” What does the album feel like? It feels like riding a train that emerges from underground as a sky tram to our mountaintop dream school. It feels like life in a richer, less homogenized version of the greatest city on the planet, exploring some of the strange and wonderful facets of the human experience. You’re a little freaked out about the time travel stuff. Totally understandable. It’s only natural to feel some displacement when you’ve slipped several decades the wrong direction up the Universal-Timestream™.

Luckily you’ve got an album that lives outside of linear time to keep you company. So you don’t have to feel so alone.

Wherever you are, whenever you go, you’ll always have Antinomian Pandemonium to remind you that we’re all a little out of place… a little out of time… but that can end up feeling just right. --- Luke H. Simmons

Eulogy, the latest collaboration between Alexei Moon Casselle (Crescent Moon) and Andrew Broder, is a meditation on mortality, friendship, ancestry, and the cost of living in the modern world.

Both Casselle and Broder emerged from the fertile ground of the Minneapolis underground, each developing a distinct voice that helped define its sound. With Kill the Vultures, Casselle brought a stark, poetic sensibility to hip-hop that stood apart for its rawness and restraint. Broder, through his project Fog and a long list of collaborations, expanded the possibilities of production, composition, and atmosphere across genres. Though their paths have long run parallel, Eulogy finds them converging here in sharp focus.

The record opens with “Backbone,” featuring legendary Minneapolis MC I Self Devine (Micranots), a central figure in the city’s underground lineage and an early influence on both artists. Like their 2018 self-titled release for Baro Records, Eulogy draws from that shared heritage of textured production, evocative storytelling, and lyrics steeped in the lives of working people, balancing grit and grace in equal measure.

The album’s emotional summit arrives with “Trains,” inspired by Casselle’s ancestor who worked the railroads in the early twentieth century. The song connects to the album’s cover image of a Pullman porter, forming a layered reflection on inheritance and hierarchy in America, history rendered personal. With contributions from Davu Seru (percussion, AACM) and deVon Russell Gray (keys, McKnight Fellow), the track deepens the album’s contemplative tone, stretching toward something spiritual without ever leaving the ground.

By the closing track, “New Moon,” Eulogy has traveled through memory, loss, and renewal. Its sound world stands comfortably beside Broder’s acclaimed work with Armand Hammer, ELUCID, Circuit des Yeux, and Joe Rainey, yet remains distinctly its own, a concise and haunting statement from two enduring voices of the Minneapolis underground.

In 2022 or so, Adibop and dove met through mutual music friends. More specifically, through Fielded, Armand
Hammer, Fatboi Sharif etc. Through this -Adibop co-produced and played bass on song on steel tipped dove’s
album with Fatboi Sharif “Decay”. After that, both dove and Adi were involved in making Armand Hammer’s “We
Buy Diabetic Test Strips”, dove producing a song and engineering vocals, and Adi playing bass on several tracks.
In the year after that, while Adi wasn’t on the road traveling with several Jazz bands or working on her other
various projects, the two found time to get in the studio and make a bunch of instrumentals together. Adi played
bass guitar or stand up bass while dove pressed buttons and ran the boards in the DAW. Once the beat folder was
filled, the only logical conclusion was to put a bevy of dope rappers on them, alas, Punctiform.

Two indie hip-hop mainstays join forces to break ground on Hostile Engineering, their debut album via Fused
Arrow. Producer Steel Tipped Dove lays a rugged foundation for emcee Lt Headtrip’s molten lyricism in a tight
composite of charged tracks. Headtrip excavates the faults of Western society addressing contentious neighbors,
poisoned religions, and hazardous work environments, all written from within the confines of a society built to
oppress its inhabitants. Dove’s production echoes the discontentment of a culture on the brink of collapse

A lot of people spend their days vaguely anxious about the pandemonium they can feel about to sweep down on all of us. They see the cracks in the societal dam holding back total chaos, and – knowing it could go sideways any minute- they have a hard time going about their day… enjoying their lunch… relaxing on the weekend. It’s like a splinter in the comfort zone in their brains… They can’t focus on anything because they’re way too aware of the cracks spreading in the thin ice we’re all walking on during these waning days of the empire. But that’s not even the actual issue. The real problem is: they just don’t have the right soundtrack cued up for when that proverbial excrement hits that spinning fan blade of reality. To put it another way, they haven’t heard Wave Generators yet. This is the album you’re going to want to reach for when you swear allegiance to Lord Humongous, Master of the Wastes, and start cruising around with your crew of marauders looking for fledgling-city-states growing in the husks of abandoned corporate campuses that you can sack and pillage and then hold a little post-raid-party in the ruins. This is the music that plays from the speakers mounted to the giant drill that the army of mole people drives through 5th avenue as they commence their invasion of the upper crust. Even though the headline news is, “this means the destruction the surface dwellers’ society and the age of Mole-Man dominance,” you can’t help but wonder, “where can I hear more of that subterranean battle anthem though?!” This is the soundtrack you want in your earphones when your life drops you into a straight up movie scene foot chase scene, tearing through active restaurant kitchens, jumping rooftop to rooftop. It’ll be way too intense to fully enjoy it and you’re gonna be winded as hell because you’re not Tom Cruise and it you’re being honest with yourself; you’ve neglected your cardio. But the way the tracks line up with the near death moments and the inevitable moment when you think you’re home free but then round the corner and smack face first into the biggest of your pursuers, …. It’s all so satisfying it’s almost worth it that you’re about to be jammed into the trunk of a mid-90s Ford Taurus. Wave Generators is exactly what you‘ve been looking for, without ever knowing you were looking. But don’t expect to take any breaks now that you found it. If anything- now that you have this last crucial tool you’ve been looking for, your busy season begins. Crank the volume, get out there, and get after it.

- Luke H. Simmons

Pale Black Negative' is the 20th project from rapper and multi-instrumentalist Rhys Langston. It crystallizes his 10 year discography of genre abolition, while showcasing his strength as rap’s premier poet-etymologist. Though rapping remains his main instrument, this record fully unveils Langston’s singing talent in equal splendor. Presenting what he calls a “rapper’s singer-songwriter record,” he commandeers guitar, bass, clarinet, synths, banjo, and percussion to couch his poetry in alternative R&B, art rock, trip hop, and even roots blues music. In the 11 songs Rhys Langston’s linguistic eccentricity shows itself as scion of his West Coast forefathers, Freestyle Fellowship, as much as the eclectic production owes its range to his coming of age in the late aughts, listening to indie pioneers TV on the Radio. And read on the page his lyrics might resemble pages from a lost Amiri Baraka manuscript, until they are sung aloud more like Beck (maybe with a little more melanin).

Even with contemporary music’s post-genre conventions, rarely do songs so successfully balance technical, poetic rapping with soulful, genre-fluid melodies. 'Pale Black Negative' compromises in neither form nor fashion. Its impressionist abstractions sit beside emotional candor, its bespoke language stands next to genuine pathos, and its layered harmonies bolster unflinching bars. Some songs were started in 2017 and others took shape in 2022, resulting in a slow cooked opus for our age of endless convenience and instant gratification. Magnum may it be, this product of a shoestring budget, an outdated DAW, and just enough nerve. A sui generis lexicon in poetry and timbre, this is Rhys Langston’s abstract autobiography across an expanse of word and sound.

The LP "People Are Not Your Friends" brings together the collaboration of Another Planet (Phiik & Lungs) and Steel Tipped Dove, combining the duo’s serial, sketch-like beats with the nuanced production palette of Steel Tipped Dove. The album works with jagged loops, shadowed melodies, and a focus on compositional density, finding its own balance between song structure and open-ended sonic exploration.

Musically, the project moves within the realm of experimental hip-hop and art-rap aesthetics; the arrangements emphasize sample-based textures, dusty drums, and spatial processing that allow for both introspective passages and rougher, driving moments. Characteristic of Another Planet are stripped-down yet striking rap motifs and a penchant for off-kilter harmonic fragments, which gain a cinematic depth through Dove’s production.

As a release on Fused Arrow, the work benefits from Steel Tipped Dove’s curatorial ambition; for several releases now, his label has served as a platform for unconventional collaborations and idiosyncratic production signatures. The production foregrounds handpicked samples and textured soundscapes, positioning "People Are Not Your Friends" as a consistent fusion of beat-driven craftsmanship and a spirit of artistic experimentation.

Polyglot on Chloroform presents two of the best kept bicoastal secrets in an effort of linguistic expressionism and genre abolition. In 7 tracks Los Angeles’ Rhys Langston turns his rapping into a conceptual artist’s toolkit. And in the 20 min runtime, Brooklyn’s steel tipped dove employs his decades of experiences in the dungeons of leftward rap to take texture and timbre to task. Tearing through the boundaries of experimental rap, Langston rhymes abstraction and absurdity, with poetic English peppered in Romance language phrases, – even as he croons like an alternate-reality grunge singer, and mutters spoken word in Spanish. Bouncing off the contemporary underground’s dour flavor, dove crafts tilt-shifting beats, pliable chord progressions, and oddball foley– nestling the maximalist approach to language and meaning in careful impressionism. Released on Fused Arrow Records, it sees Rhys Langston’s music for the first time ever on vinyl, and builds upon steel tipped dove’s emergent role as prolific underground curator, collaborator, and mastermind.

You know that feeling when an incredible actor pops up in a surprise cameo in a movie and your jaw hits the floor? Or when you are listening to a brand new song without looking at the credits and you hear your favorite rapper check the mic - about to start their verse? Multiply that excitement by 10 and you’ve got the new album by AJ Suede and steel tipped dove.

Reoccurring Characters transports the listener into the sonic universe of two of the most undeniable forces in current rap music. Fresh from a world tour AJ Suede is penning rich, clever and poignant lyrics, performing them with his truly engrossing flow and pure rap skill flexing. Linking up with steel tipped dove to map out a chaotic smooth instrumental framework to inhabit, these two transport you to a whole new dimension.

A few other prodigious characters hopped in the hovercraft, including Premrock, Fatboi Sharif, Duncecap & Curly Castro - each delivering their own stunning display of word flow mastery. Playing Reoccurring Characters will place you in Suede and dove’s nomadic phonic world, always looking for new and rare places to go.