Keith's Salon

Description

Written with the libidinal urgency that characterizes Kool Keith's legendary lyricism, "Keith's Salon" explores our current obsessions with luxury, beauty and notoriety. But rather than fetishizing the pretty dum-dums who walk red carpets in black Prada dresses, Kool Keith's latest studio album redirects our attention to the work and the workers that underpin our fantasies of American excess and the good life.As such, the album is also a timely meditation, during middle age, on the economic precarity in which many of us find ourselves. After doubling up with Triple Parked, the production team of avant-techno maven Bruno Pronsato and Benjamin Jay, "Keith's Salon" oscillates between halcyon sounds and the dystopia of atonal warlords, while keeping the minimal rhythms so that Kool Keith can spread extra ketchup on the hamburger.An album both timely and futuristic, lush and bizarre, "Keith's Salon" aims to make people beautiful. To work!