Decoding the New Armand Hammer Album, ‘Shrines’

In their most oblique project yet, Armand Hammer finds the light in a dark world (Backwoodz Studioz).

The last time we heard from New York hip-hop duo, Armand Hammer, they explored the dismal reality of being a black man in a white, capitalist America. Last year, one half of the pair, Billy Woods, searched the deepest, darkest corners of himself and released one of the most unsettling hip-hop releases of the last decade.