Rhys Langston – To Live And Die In E.U.L.A. (WEB) (2026) (320 kbps)

‘to live and die in end user license agreements’ is Rhys Langston’s return to rap form, a multi-producer album following years of self-produced “genre abolition” and pushing the melodic boundaries of alt-rap. In these 12 new tracks he playfully and artfully asks us to consider whether the pretense of a social contract has been replaced by the omnipresence of end user license agreements. Rapping like the canary in the data mine, he takes on the mundane and grandiose alike, as is the nature of life when software mediates the everyday and tech boardrooms accelerate the death throes of monopoly capital.

Even with such high concept aims, ‘to live and die in E.U.L.A.’ still puts Rhys Langston’s musicality and idiosyncratic songwriting center stage: like his ear for tender melodies on the break-up rap ballad, “it’s the fade out”, or on the trip-hop-inflected title track, where he tries to “stare down the inflection point at its zenith.” Ever the satirist and surrealist, songs like “I woke up feeling like an anti-zionist Rube Goldberg” and “I’m running for senate” indulge in a sharp irony set against the growing erosion of civil liberties and ubiquity of surveillance technology. And counterbalanced with the earnest personal touches of “my grandmother’s pecan tree” and “shy feet in unstressed syllables”, this collection of songs might just prove to be the clearest distillation of Rhys Langston’s rap prowess in his now 21 project catalog.

Tracklist:

01. I’m Running for Senate (feat. Bloomcycle)
02. My Grandmother’s Pecan Tree (feat. Kwame Adu & PTY)
03. Shy Feet in Unstressed Syllables (feat. PremRock & Roper Williams)
04. I’m Trying to Lose More Marbles (feat. Open Mike Eagle & Dick Chainey)
05. I Woke Up Feeling Like an Anti-Zionist Rube Goldberg (feat. Dick Chainey, Nahhphet & Ya Boy Pax)
06. It’s the Fadeout (feat. PTY)
07. Drumless Loop Mossad (feat. Bloomcycle)
08. Y’all Make Foreground Music with Background Music Energy (feat. Phiik & Bloomcycle)
09. From Software?! (feat. Ya Boy Pax)
10. Paddling Southwest (feat. Sleep Sinatra)
11. To Live and Die in E.U.L.A (feat. Q No Rap Name)
12. Dedicated to the Women in S.T.E.M. Who Engineered My Getaway (feat. Old Grape God)

Download:

320 kbps – Wayshare