Oneirology by Cunninlynguists


1. Predormitum (Prologue)
2. Darkness (Dream On) f. Anna Wise of Sonnymoon*
3. Phantasmata
4. Hard As They Come (Act I) f. Freddie Gibbs*
5. Murder (Act II) f. Big Krit*
6. My Habit (I Haven't Changed)
7. Get Ignorant
8. Shattered Dreams
9. Stars Shine Brightest (In The Darkest Of Night) f. Rick Warren*
10. So As Not To Wake You (Interlude)
11. Enemies With Benefits f. Tonedeff
12. Looking Back f. Anna Wise of Sonnymoon
13. Dreams f. Tunji & B.J. The Chicago Kid
14. Hypnopomp (Epilogue) f. Bianca Spriggs
15. Embers**


This album is amazing...I got my hands on it about three days ago and have been unable to listen to anything else since (well...ok, maybe not entirely true...but close). The production is amazing, textured, slick and original and the lyrics are not too far behind. I starred my favorite tracks thus far, I'm really impressed with the work they put into this album.

In addition to mentioning mushrooms/fungus and numerous allusions to tripping and consciousness throughout the album, the lyrics off of the last track "Embers" struck me as possibly DMT-inspired:

Imagine the burning embers
They glow below and above
Your sins you won’t remember
And all you’ll find there is love

[V1 - NATTI]
I’m cloaked in smoke, but feel no flames
folks float around me, but I see no wings
no halos or hounds, pitchforks or gates
or omnipotent voice that picks course of fate
did a life of indecision build a dream scape prison
where light isn’t manufactured, but captured inside a prism?
in a state between sleep and awake
feels closest to hypnosis with an infinite wake
then a fog dissipates revealing crimson fields
Crept on by a fawn with flaming heels
eyes red as stop signs with a mane of quills
as I gaze past hills of diamond trees
I see a silhouette rest upon golden leaves
with the body of a goddess and a face of dreams
a half naked Meagan Good in a Pagan hood
kissed me on the cheek we didn’t speak, but I understood
it wasn’t Heaven that I was seeking, but a haven I sought
a canvas of the mind painted with my thoughts

Imagine the burning embers
They glow below and above
Your sins you won’t remember
And all you’ll find there is love

[V2 - KNO]
Everything ain't what it seems
I wake up to find I'm inside of a dream this side of a dream
See buried deep inside the seams of my screams
are beings and other-worldly things rarely seen
Might be psychosis or maybe i chose this
the night approaches every time the eye closes
See a burning bush, feel like I'm Moses
Burn so much Kush I feel like Amosis
All my images are morgues and moons
and every fork in the road moves through Freud and Jung
In the darkness no orchard blooms
a state so dark sparks from torches consumed
It's like I live in a fortress of doom
in the forest where the blood pours with force from my wounds
My body aches with this lobotomy a part of me shakes
open my eyes and awake

Ashes are burning brightly
The smoke can be seen from afar
So now you’re seeing how far
Ashes are burning the way


Just wanted to share it with you guys as it's pretty much got a monopoly on my ear at present.

Happy listening,
SB

Very nice, its been a few years since I've even listened to hip-hop let alone found something good, Thank you for this.

Also, do you recommend any of their older albums as well? I'm downloading them right now to check them out.

Peace, and Love.

I enjoyed SouthernUnderground, when it came out a number of years ago, but I never really kept up with them, I guess they got lost in my ocean of audio. They released a couple albums in between that and this one, which I missed, due to them not really being on my radar. But if this album is an indicator, they've grown significantly from their earlier days (although, I heard that at the very least, the production on the last two albums before this one was supposed to be solid). Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for this , big fan of Hiphop

awesome!! i'm a huge fan of the cunninlynguists (love their name too) and I didn't know they had a new one out. just ordered it!

wait.. what? cunninlynguists has a new album out? now how the hell did i miss that? im dissappointed in myself

thanks for the links! <3


edit.
I recommend the "A Piece Of Strange" album from Cunninlynguists too. Its just an absolutely beautiful piece of music

So good!!!

I love hip-hop. Specially the psychedelic/jazzy/experimental/conscious kinda hip-hop.

One rapper I have been following for a while and pretty much got me interested in DMT. Jak Progresso. This dudes creativity oozes with style.

Oh yes! I LOVE Cunninlynguists, i personally think it's one of the best things that ever happened to the genre.All their stuff is good, but this one is amazing and A Piece of Strange has always been perfect music to listen to when tripping on acid or shrooms.It's one of my all time favorite albums of any genre.Kno is responsible for their unique melodic style.

okay so this link is just to perfect for this thread! hehe enjoy everyone!
jay electronica - dimethyltryptamine

probe, check out this thread.

nice one snooz!
Wow i would never have tought that so many here on nexus liked hip hop this much
i saw some other thread that had name dropped jay elektronica already in oktober after i posted that.

Great album! Cunninlynguists always kills it.

only listened to 4 tracks, but i'm downloading the whole album now. Thanks for sharing