Thumbs are no longer anatomical but rather the static characters of approval for a job well done. The likes that catalog our individual preferences. They grade the successes playing out in a virtual world and within our own minds. Endlessly gathered into a sprawling market-ready databases rivalled only by our idea of a God.
Thumbs was made as a mixtape by Busdriver to further explore the concept of a homogenous citizenry from his last record Perfect Hair. It draws from the defining musical tropes of the LA underground rap experience with the isolation born from racial politics fixed as a central theme. Frequent collaborators such as milo, Mono/Poly, Kenny Segal, Fumitake Tamura all appear for the most action-packed Busdriver release to date.
A1 | Absolutions in the Hottentot Supercluser | 4:33 |
A2 | Black Labor (as understood by Equiano) | 3:15 |
A3 | Hyperbolic 2 | 3:08 |
A4 | MUCH | 3:38 |
A5 | Ministry of the Torture Couch | 5:18 |
B1 | Worlds to Run | 5:15 |
B2 | Surrounded by Millionaires | 2:34 |
B3 | Great Spooks of Enormous Strength | 3:27 |
B4 | Shadows and Victories | 3:51 |
B5 | Species of Property | 3:26 |