The mysterious Brooklyn collective Standing On The Corner released a new album last year, but you probably didn’t hear it. You had to really work to hear SOTC (“II”), since the LP has never appeared on a streaming service or anything. Instead, it was only available as a $50 DVD that you could buy from some guy with a bag full of them in Times Square on 9/11. That was it. It was the only way. But that’s about to change, since SOTC (“II”) will now get a proper release this year on 9/11, exactly one year after that sketchy DVD sale.
SOTC (“II”) includes “Gimme My Gun,” a track that the group released as a single last month, and it’s also got collaborators like Solange, Danny Brown, the Lox’s Styles P, and Digable Planets’ Ladybug Mecca. Today, they’ve shared two more way-out psychedelic lo-fi funk tracks: “Mr. Postman, wait!,” which is on SOTC (“II”), and “Splitting Moonlight.” which is not.
Solange apparently had something to do with “Mr. Postman, wait!” She’s in the YouTube credits like this: “Unknown: Solange Knowles,” though she’s not listed as a featured artist, as she is on album track “Sonia.” Is it possible that Solange sings the lead vocal on “Mr. Postman, wait!”? There’s distortion all over it, so it’s hard to say, but I guess it could be her. Previously Standing On The Corner did work on a bunch of tracks from her 2019 album When I Get Home. Check out those two songs and the SOTC (“II) tracklist below, as well as, well, the entire album.
As it happens, you won’t have wait until 9/11 to hear SOTC (“II”), since Standing On The Corner already shared the entire thing in two mostly-unlabelled half-hour chunks on YouTube last month.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Will it ever be the same?” (feat. The Warlockettes)
02 “The word”
03 “Man may not last” (feat. Ladybug Mecca & Styles P)
04 “Evil man 9”
05 “Gimme my gun”
06 “Mr. Postman, wait!”
07 “Roll over beethoven”
08 “Rifle prayer”
09 “Doesn’t mean a thing” (feat. Bubba Dupree)
10 “Secrets” (feat. Claudette Ortiz)
11 “Baby, oh baby!”
12 “The Night has arrived”
13 “Sonia” (feat. Sonia Sanchez & Solange)
14 “How deep is the sea?” (feat. Danny Brown)
15 “Go 2 sleep pu$$y”
SOTC (“II”) is out 9/11 on XL Recordings
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