PRE-ORDER - 01/15/2027 Release Date
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Description
After three decades of making music, Slug and Ant arrive at a curious place: looking backward without wanting to go back. Good Bye Make Party is an album about time, memory, aging, love, loneliness and learning to appreciate a life while accepting that it keeps moving forward. Across eleven songs, Slug takes inventory of the people, places and experiences that shaped him, moving between regret and gratitude, self-deprecation and self-acceptance, connection and solitude.
Rooted in the streets and memories of Minneapolis, the album revisits old parties, relationships, records and versions of himself while confronting the peculiar experience of becoming a seasoned veteran without ever feeling particularly grown up. Ant's production mirrors that reflection with lived-in warmth, weaving soulful instrumentation through his signature drum programming to create a sound that is organic, intimate and cinematic. The music carries the weight of three decades without attempting to recreate the past, drawing instead from everything Ant has learned along the way. Ultimately, Good Bye Make Party is less a farewell than a recalibration: a thoughtful, funny and deeply human reflection on moving forward, letting go of what no longer serves you, and giving yourself permission to leave the party on your own terms.
Format / LP
Released / 01/15/2027
Catalogue / RYMS-500
Barcode / 826257050014
Artist / Atmosphere
Label / Rhymesayers
Genre / Hip Hop