$uicideboy$ - Stop Staring at the Shadows [Purple & Black Marble]

Few rap duos make despair sound this magnetic, and Stop Staring at the Shadows finds $uicideboy$ at their most unguarded, coming soon on purple and black marble vinyl.

Released in 2020 on their own G59 Records, the project landed between I Want to Die in New Orleans and Long Term Effects of Suffering. Cousins Ruby da Cherry and Scrim have never sugar-coated their struggles with depression and addiction, and here those themes come through with unusual clarity, closer to confession than provocation. It is the sound of two artists trying to make sense of the wreckage while still standing in it.

Built on trap drums and murky, Memphis-flavored atmosphere, the record swings between hushed melancholy and snarling aggression, from opener All Dogs Go to Heaven through I Wanna Be Romanticized and Putrid Pride. The closer, ...And to Those I Love, Thanks for Sticking Around, is the emotional centerpiece, produced by Scrim under his Budd Dwyer alias, and it went on to become one of the duo's most-streamed songs.

For a fanbase that treats these records as lifelines, this marbled pressing will be a striking way to hold onto one of their most honest releases once it arrives, and a handsome companion to the rest of the G59 shelf.