{"product_id":"saul-williams-leap-life-2lp","title":"Saul Williams - Leap Life","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWilliams was born on a leap day, which means he has had roughly a quarter as many birthdays as everyone else his age. \u003cem\u003eLeap Life\u003c\/em\u003e takes its name from that, and it is his first solo record in seven years, arriving on Big Dada, the label that housed his work in the early 2000s. He has described it as an attempt to commune with the dead against a backdrop of ongoing devastation in Palestine, Sudan, Haiti, Congo, and Yemen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCarlos Niño, a friend since the late 1990s, shaped the arrangements and sequenced the whole thing as a single immersive front-to-back listen, and that intent is audible from the first minute. The record moves through electronic and ambient territory built from field recordings and environmental texture, pulling in jazz, hip-hop, and West African rhythmic traditions, with Williams using his voice as an instrument threaded through the music rather than perched on top of it. \"Baobab Constellation\" opens in near-abstraction. \"Une Photographie\" features Anisia Uzeyman, his longtime collaborator and co-director on \u003cem\u003eNeptune Frost\u003c\/em\u003e. \"Robot Slave\" and \"Not Everything For Sale\" are where the polemic sharpens to a point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe guest list is remarkable and worth knowing before you drop the needle: Kamasi Washington, Moor Mother, Gonjasufi, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Surya Botofasina, and Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack all appear. Lead single \"Conspiracy\" pairs Williams with Moor Mother and Gonjasufi and gives a fair sense of the album's weight. It is the most sonically expansive thing he has made and still unmistakably a poet's record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDouble LP on black vinyl in a twelve inch gatefold with a twenty-four inch foldout newsprint poster. Out August 28, 2026 on Big Dada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47549146202274,"sku":null,"price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/5054429211894-CoverArtImage1.jpg?v=1787354891","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/saul-williams-leap-life-2lp","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}