"Named for the extractive, oil barren, Armand Hammer the enigmatic hip-hop duo Elucid and billy woods have teamed up with the protean producer supreme The Alchemist to construct a penetrating study of the conditions of living, just barely getting by, and living while dying in the form of a new LP, Haram. Haram is the Islamic term for things that are forbidden. A fitting title for a project that shaves up the thin veneer of society’s self-justifying myths to glimpse the spirit-draining void howls beneath." - This is the intro to my review of Armand Hammer's new album Haram. Read the whole thing over on New Noise.
