Okayplayer Audio: Spank Rock x Santigold 'Car Song' (Shabazz Palaces Remix)

Okayplayer Audio: Spank Rock x Santigold 'Car Song' (Shabazz Palaces Remix)


Okayplayer dishes on Seattle/Zimbabwe experimentalists Shabazz Palaces remix of Santi + Spank(y) Rock:

Spank Rock times Santigold to the power of Shabazz Palaces = instant download. That’s like Philly and BK in a titanium-plated hummer rolling across the Sahel zone <–an image I would be much more comfortable allowing to live in my head than the ray-bans being stabbed through one lens by a skull-branded dental retainer with doll-hair hanging off of it. Ick. Just cover that part with one hand while you focus on the title, which indicates that this is just part of a 4-track remix EP from Spanky’s recent LPE.I.B.A.E.I.A.F.L. which drops April 10th.

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