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JOHAN LENOX: The aggression lurking throughout isomonstrosity came to a head during the composition of this piece, featuring a dramatic call to "wake up" to all the ways the world was changing in the summer of 2020. A chaotic Vic Mensa verse embodied our feelings of claustrophobia and the need to break out of established paradigms. By the end of the track, the music seems to be spiraling in on itself until it closes in on a single point of glitchy madness.

YUGA COHLER: The title alludes to how surreal everything felt, how some of us wished COVID quarantine was just a bad dream we would wake up from.

ELLEN REID: When I first heard the call “wake up,” I knew that phrase would echo throughout. The album begins with the words “wake up,” and [they] come to a fevered pitch in this recording. 

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wake up!
wake up!
wake up!
wake up!
wake up!

hear the church bells ringing
i'm singing freedom
we live in modern enslavement 
i'm exercising my demons
i'm splitting the congregation
i done caught the holy ghost on these motherfuckers 
the spirit is in me
father to son, i'll bury my enemies
we a dynasty compared to the Kennedys 
but more Black, with more straps
i mean they barely could kill me
i'm immortal
bitch you ain't walking in these here Jordans
size nine and a half
tell me who your favorite 
i'm Kurt Vonnegut 
promise i'll slaughter all 5 
running out of the ride
with a Louis Vuitton bag

a lot of yall looking real performative
(doing what?)
sitting, thinking
way done with that
wake up!
sleep 
eat
pass out

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from isomonstrosity: Johan Lenox / Ellen Reid / Yuga Cohler, track released October 12, 2022

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isomonstrosity New York, New York

isomonstrosity is a pandemic symphony in rap and avant-pop. The three principals’ credits are unassailable. Ellen Reid won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Johan Lenox studied composition at the Yale School of Music then built a career as a go-to producer for iconic pop artists (i.e. 070 Shake, Travis Scott, Lil Nas X). Yuga Cohler is a Juilliard-trained conductor and a software engineer. ... more

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