cropscropscrops, steel tipped dove - Long-Light Derecho

You step outside on a late summer morning: the humidity is suffocating, your neighbor’s hemlock taps against your window in an unsettling wind, and then the drums roll in like thunder. This is the world of Long-Light Derecho. Brooklyn’s steel tipped dove and Montreal-based rapper cropscropscrops come together on this concise 9-track, 21-minute underground hip-hop journey through narrative, anxiety, and the so-called calms before the storm.

steel tipped dove’’s production creates the perfect backdrop for an introduction to cropscropscrops. Dusty drum breaks give heft against crops’ deadpan, controlled flow. Found sounds and esoteric samples weave one track to the next surrounding you in the world of this approaching windstorm. Like all releases on dove’s Fused Arrow Records, Long-Light Derecho throws the ordinary out the driver’s side window and instead hands you a one-of-one experience.

“Obviously the whole story missing / but one day you’ll wake up distilled down to image” Crops contemplates on “On Framing.” This thought encapsulates the album’s essence: what’s presented and what’s deliberately left out. Long-Light Derecho bounces between those 2 thoughts in continuum – experimental yet accessible, opaque yet compelling, compact yet impactful.

All songs written and performed by cropscropscrops
*except for featured artist
All songs produced, mixed & mastered by crops & dove
Artwork by cropscropscrops