Standing On The Corner announce their forthcoming album SOTC (“II”) out September 11. In addition, the ensemble shares a new single + visualizer for ‘Mr. Postman, wait!’ (b/w ‘Splitting Moonlight’) – watch here.
Founded in Brooklyn, NY, STANDING ON THE CORNER (est. 2015) is a music recording group whose work moves fluidly between performance, film, installation, and sound. Rooted in the cultural exchange between the USA, Puerto Rico, and Africa, the project machinates an intersection between soul, punk, salsa, doowop, jazz, funk, avant-garde, and rap traditions, filtered through a distinctly New York sensibility.
The ensemble’s practice is characterized by a mischievous alliance with ephemerality, lived experience, and site-specific signification with works often distributed unexpectedly and within limited physical windows. This emphasis on transience and communal memory remains central to the project’s ethos.
On SOTC “II” the New York outfit channels said philosophy into a 15-track album recorded by bandleader Gio Escobar and core collaborators Jack “Wacko” Nolan, Buz “Man-man” Donald, and Clérida “Ca$h Clay” Eltimé. The result is a tense, genre-defacing record that exists between fried psychedelia, rock-n-roll, no-wave rap, r&b, and post-hardcore energy; a mirror to a national moment of searching for meaning/nothing/sounds/
Featured artists include: The Warlockettes, Ladybug Mecca, Styles P, Bubba Dupree, Claudette Ortiz, Sonia Sanchez, Solange, and Danny Brown.
Stream / download ‘Mr. Postman, wait!’ here.
Pre-order / pre-save II here.
