Friday 7th April | 7pm | £12.50 / £7 conc advance tickets
Baltimore hip-hop experimentalists Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals return with vital new album King Cobra, a mighty, omnivorous record that pushes the duo to unstoppable creative heights.
YES YES YES THEY’RE BACK!! If any of you caught their Rose Hill set last year we’re sure you’ll be diving straight back in again for this… It was our barman Ben’s favourite show of the year last year, and he gets to see A LOT of shows..!
We’re sure these guys are gonna get much bigger - it may be the last time we can afford to book them at The Rose Hill, so don’t miss this opportunity! Heavy beats, intelligent and conscious lyrics, epic flow; this is US experimental hiphop at its best!
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals’ inexhaustible creativity has already gifted us 2020’s Dear, Sudan - a kaleidoscopic, unpredictable joyride of late night channel-hopping - and 2021’s brutal post-George Floyd manifesto Rhino XXL, but King Cobra is a new experience still. It is a masterfully executed expression of both ferocity and joy.
”Not a checklist of all the ills in the world,” says the band, “but it feels like darkness”. An expansively ambitious record, full of fire, and a thrilling new step from artists on a crucial mission.
"...defies genre in the most spectacular way with an avant-gardist's penchant for experimentation." - Bleep
“Brian Ennals is the best rapper in Baltimore. Infinity Knives is one of the best producers anywhere.” - Max Bell, SPIN
“Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals…make an art rap masterpiece” -Al Shipley
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“Together, Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals might seem like the poster boys for alternative or experimental hip hop, but King Cobra proves that labels can be meaningless. The meditative opening and closing tracks, the quiet interludes matched with Ennals’ poetic rage, and the layers of sound effects and visceral soundscapes in-between all point to an album that is colourful yet hard to pin down.”