This is the second single from Dope Sagittarius album Sacred places. The band is Luqman Browns musical vision and the album comes with an accompanying comic book.
Unlike Define Love the first single by Dope Sagittarius that was soulful and a really cool listen this is far harsher sounding with a drum and bass undertow with all sort of odd stuff going on including a slightly mad violin solo and vocals that almost sound like Luqman Brown is trying to sing like June Tyson, before Mike Ladd's rap part comes in alongside distorted guitars and furious beats in time with the lyrics about the state of the world and the protests and hatred and bile rising so we need a Black Empress to save us.
The radio edit of Black Empress cuts 3 seconds of playing time and I'm guessing a line from the rap section but otherwise sounds almost identical until the start of the rap that has more prominent audience noise, it's a wonderfully mad piece of music that's confused and confusing in the way that much of our current existence is. The most surprising thing about this song is that it was written in 2016 as it sounds so 2020, but some truth's never seem to change.
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