
In addition to the new hip-hop album releases in the Top Five below are such other new/recent arrivals to Amoeba as the
Fugees vinyl release from Sony Legacy;
Refugee Camp: Bootleg Versions LP. As its title implies this is a collection of alternative bootleg versions of tracks by the Fugees (aka Refugee Camp) including "Ready Or Not [Clark Kent/Django Remix]" and "Nappy Heads [Mad Spider Mix]. Another Sony Legacy trip down memory lane is their 2LP/vinyl reissue of
Nas' 1999 album
Nastradamus 2LP/vinyl reissue.
New releases on vinyl this week include
Fat Albert Einstein's
2U4U LP,
Jake Najor's 7" DJ/producer tailored
Dirty Money Breaks on Common Good Records, and Minneapolis artist
Sims'
Arteria Verite LP. That brand new album by the
Doomtree crew member is also available on
CD.
Additional hip-hop new arrivals at Amoeba from the past couple of weeks include
Curren$y &
Harry Fraud's
The Marina EP (also on
vinyl/LP),
Freeway's
Think Free, and
Jarren Benton's
Yuck Fou. Recent vinyl releases include
Knxwledge's Stones Throw 7" "
Gladwemet," a 3LP blue vinyl pressing of
Damu The Fudgemeunk's
Vignettes, and the super-duo Marlowe's (
Solemn Brigham &
L'Orange) self-titled album on Mello Music Group,
Marlowe LP (more on this amazing album in an upcoming Amoblog interview with the artists).
Following a tumultuous stretch in the public eye earlier this year, including his breakup with
Ariana Grande and getting a DUI for a hit-and-run, rapper/singer
Mac Miller is back with his anticipated
album
Swimming. His fifth full-length release, it is the follow up the artist's acclaimed 2016 album
TheDevine Feminine (avail on
vinyl/2LP). While production-wise the 13 track album is a lush synth-drenched affair, lyrically the album offers the 26 year old artist a cathartic opportunity to bear his soul and face such demons as depression and paranoia, all the while coming to terms with where he is at this juncture in his life.