Armand Hammer enlists Pink Siifu for new single + announces new album

ARMAND HAMMER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM WE BUY DIABETIC TEST STRIPS OUT SEPTEMBER 29TH VIA FAT POSSUM RECORDS SHARES LEAD SINGLE "TRAUMA MIC" FEATURING PINK SIIFU ANNOUNCES UPCOMING FALL/WINTER TOUR

photo credit: Alexander Richter (Download Hi-Res Assets HERE) "Trauma Mic" featuring Pink Siifu WATCH: https://youtu.be/MJ-00HEeY-A LISTEN: https://armandhammer.ffm.to/traumamic We Buy Diabetic Test Strips PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://armandhammer.ffm.to/wbdts.OEM (August 2, 2023) - Armand Hammer, the groundbreaking NYC rap duo of ELUCID and billy woods, announces its eighth studio album, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, out September 29th via Fat Possum Records. The duo’s new project arrives two and a half years after Haram, their labyrinthine collaboration with The Alchemist, and is introduced with their lead single "Trauma Mic" featuring Pink Siifu. The visual, which stars DJ Haram, billy woods and ELUCID, is co-directed by acclaimed actor Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, O Brother Where Art Thou) and his son Henry Nelson. Produced by DJ Haram, the duo's visceral new track "snowballs," Armand Hammer describes, "except instead of snow it’s a neodymium magnet cascading down a mountain of discarded pig iron." Alongside the news of its new album, Armand Hammer announces autumn and winter tour dates that will begin a few days after releasing its new album. The 28-date tour will begin on October 1st and run until the end of February, taking the album through North America and Europe. The duo is also announcing a free daytime show this Saturday, August 5th at Brooklyn's Public Records, where fans will be able to hear select songs from the new album for the first time. Tickets for the tour are available HERE. Following Haram, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is an entirely different beast, incorporating live instrumentation and featuring an array of producers including JPEGMAFIA, EL-P, Kenny Segal, DJ Haram, Black Noi$e, Preservation, August Fanon, Steel Tipped Dove, Child Actor and Sebb Bash. Holding true to the sonic identity they've successfully cultivated since their 2013 debut, familiar faces like Pink Siifu, Moor Mother, and Curly Castro make contributions, while also bringing new and like-minded peers into the fold, with features from Junglepussy, Moneynicca (of Soul Glo) and Cavalier. Virtuoso jazz musician and celebrated composer Shabaka Hutchings shows up on flute, one of several musicians who sat down with ELUCID and celebrated engineer Willie Green for a jam session in 2022 that helped pour the foundation of this album.  Of his experience working on the album, ELUCID shares, "This sort of reverse engineering of talented players who met for the first time in the studio jamming to pre-recorded beats before splintering off into new directions. Being in the room quietly watching 4 people fumble around each other's sonic worlds before finally locking into a solid groove was a clear and obvious magical moment for me." As solo artists, ELUCID and Billy Woods had already achieved modest success prior to collaborating on their 2013 debut, Race Music. That album was followed by an EP; Furtive Movements in 2014. Both artists continued to collaborate over the following years; making appearances on each other’s work and performing together, but fans would have to wait four years for a new Armand Hammer project. ROME was released in November of 2017, and the duo doubled down with Paraffin in 2018. Like opposite sides of a coin, the two albums are connected, yet radically different in their design. Paraffin was greeted with a wave of critical acclaim that only rose in the wake of 2020’s naturalistic masterpiece Shrines or their transgressive 2021 collaboration with The Alchemist, Haram.  Pre-save/order We Buy Diabetic Test Strips and listen to "Trauma Mic" featuring Pink Siifu above, see below for a special statement on WBDTS from Armand Hammer & more album info.

photo credit: Alexander Richter From the desk of Armand Hammer: We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is a Midsummer’s night in Brooklyn, the stage busy with Gods old, new, and unborn, the orchestra pit thick with weed smoke. Memories, true and false, tangle like wires. Afrofuturists rewind analog answering machines. Brownstones line empty streets on quiet nights where even outside the Men’s Shelter, they pass cigarettes in silence. Street sweepers rattle the morning, broken hovercrafts sent from the past to do nothing at all. People move out of the building in the morning and move back in at dusk, excited to get settled in their old place. Dropped calls fall into the ether, the cracked mirror in your pocket is past warranty but not to worry, they have already mailed you a replacement.

Upcoming Live Dates North America 8/5 - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records Nursery Pop Up 10/1 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby's  10/6 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre  10/8 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos  10/9 - Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall  10/11 - Oakland, CA @ The New Parish 10/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex  10/13 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room  10/29 - Austin, TX @ Levitation Festival  EU / UK  11/2 - Manchester, UK @ Canvas  11/4 - London, UK @ Earth Hall  11/5 - Berlin, Germany @ Pitchfork Festival  11/7 - St. Gallen, Switzerland @ Palace  11/9 - Paris, France @ Point Ephemere  11/10 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Rotonde  11/11 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Le Guess Who? Holland Festival  11/14 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Tolhuistuin  North America 11/16 - New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom  11/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church  11/18 - Washington D.C. @ Union Stage  11/30 - Boston, MA @ Crystal Ballroom  12/1 - Easthampton, NY @ Daily Operation  1/20 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB  1/22 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern  1/24 - Detroit, MI @ The Magic Bag  1/25 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall  1/27 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine line  2/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5  2/26 - Orlando, FL @ The Social