Listen to new single 'Hessdalen Lights' below.
Today, Lushlife shares "Hessdalen Lights", the lead single of his upcoming EP Redamancy on Fortune Tellers, out February 19th. Brooklyn Vegan premiered the track, praising it as an "airy, psychedelic, genre-defying song, which is a very promising first taste of the EP."
This November, Lushlife (under his given name, Raj Haldar) released, No Reading Allowed - the follow-up to his #1 New York Times bestselling children's book, P is for Pterodactyl to rave reviews, with the Wall Street Journal noting, ""Those who love wordplay are the natural constituency for No Reading Allowed: The Worst Read-Aloud Book Ever, a picture book that's bright with comic scenes... [and] brilliant pairings of picture and word (and word with word)." Raj Haldar (rapper-producer Lushlife) has had a strange and storied career on the edges of hip-hop and indie music over the last decade. Starting with Cassette City in 2009, he released three critically-acclaimed albums, most recently Ritualize in 2016 on Western Vinyl which featured collaborations with Killer Mike and Ariel Pink amongst many others. Following a Trump-era mixtape, My Idols are Dead and my Enemies are in Power and a criminally-overlooked collaborative album with the producer, Botany under the name The Skull Eclipses in 2018, Raj spent the last few years publishing a #1 New York Times bestselling children's book P Is For Pterodactyl, which spent 26 weeks on the Times' bestseller list, and the sequel out this month, No Reading Allowed. This led to a TV development deal for his kids' book projects, as well as a "social horror" TV series set in India entitled, Cult of Aghori. All that is to say, he got a little sidetracked on the music front... until now.Listen to the new single here:
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