Brother Ali released new album Left In The Deck

Brother Ali released new album Left In The Deck On September 5th Brother Ali released his full-length project „Left in the Deck”, a free collection of demo recordings that he made with Jake One while working on last year's Mourning in America, Dreaming in Color. The record includes 10 tracks inspired from his recent travels from all around the world.

Brother Ali said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX that:

"A lot of times when I make songs, I make the demo... I'm in the habit of making the demo version just on a handheld mic, wherever I'm at, a two-track version of the beat, unmixed and that's especially with songs that are really about the beat and about me spittin'. Those are my favorite versions and I could never get them in the studio the way that they felt when they were just raw...I'm not thinking about polishing it or perfecting it. Sometimes there are words that are wrong here and there. But it's just really the emotion of having just written it and then spitting it right there. There have been certain times where I've never been able to recapture that [in a studio session]. So, me and Jake [One] had this collection of songs [Left in the Deck] that are just like that."

As the title suggests, Left in the Deck also hopes to make listeners feel as though they are listening to a cassette tape.

"It's meant to feel like how back in the day, we would make demo tapes," said Brother Ali, who is on tour with Immortal Technique on their "War & Peace Tour." "We would make cassette versions of albums and share them with each other.

It's in that form. It's 10 songs, but it's only two tracks. So there's a Side A with five songs and a Side B with five songs. So it plays like a cassette."

Tracklist: 01. Dial Tone 02. Grandma And Them 03. Digital Age 04. Never Stoppin’ 05. Not A Day Goes By 06. Well Okay 07. Steerange 08. Phantom Of The Opera 09. Rapper Thing 10. Devil’s Arms