Listen to Jackaltheblackal's New Album 'GUNS AKIMBO (0-VII)'

Putting much-needed sizzle into these drab wintery days is GUNS AKIMBO (0-VII), a dynamite new twelve track album from Tāmaki Makaurau avant-rap / alt hip-hop artist jackaltheblackal. Head-spinning beat poetry ducks and dives around discombobulating, dodgem logic sample-scapes on opener '0. HARMON', instantly tipping off listeners to buckle up for a wild ride, followed by the swirling and soulful 'I. GARCIAN' — sounding like a low key insta-classic, doffing the hat to Katamari Damacy and T.S. Eliot in the same dang track. A maximal journey, the bullet hell barrage of lyrical imagery and sliced 'n' diced sonic textures unloaded on GUNS AKIMBO (0-VII) feels urgently contemporary and uniquely local in spirit, prompting happy memories of the artistically uncompromising The Grow Room era. Join jackaltheblackal throwing down at Nice Goblins with band, plus friends WAIWHAI. and big al. this Saturday...

"here was an original title of "the only time a lawyer can cry is when it's all over".
"once you've found the contradicting evidence...present it and rub it in the witness's face!"
both my hands are full. be prepared to shoot yourself in the foot in your process of labour. the answers are placed out of my arm's reach. work restricting like rail tracks."

jackaltheblackal (w/ band)
with friends WAIWHAI. and big al.
Saturday 9th August - NiceGoblins Collective, Auckland
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

'GUNS AKIMBO (0-VII)' is out now on major streaming platforms.