Kurt Vile and Czarface's Esoteric have finally linked up. A few months ago, the Philly rocker (who is rarely seen without his DOOM hat lately) named Czarface and MF DOOM’s 2021 LP Super What? as his "Perfect 10" album for Pitchfork. Czarface commented on the Instagram post, "KV!! Let's get some music done!" Last night the hip-hop group’s Esoteric, on his birthday and in his Boston hometown, joined the Violators to rap over "Bassackwards" from 2018's Bottle It In.
Vile's currently on tour promoting his new record Philadelphia's Been Good To Me. Czarface and Frankie Pulitzer (aka Tom Hardy)'s new album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer is out next month. Vile and Esoteric got together at the Royale, and the result sounds better than it should. Recorded version when?
In his Pitchfork video, Vile said, "The cool thing about Czarface in general is that they have the old-school hip-hop tradition, but then they're still making these new records and they always have guests like MF DOOM or GZA, The Genius, or so many different people all the time. But it's those three guys and then they make these modern hip-hop records that lean backwards but also go forward into the future."
Watch their performance together below.
