Lushlife releases mixtape for ACLU

Lushlife releases mixtape for ACLU, featuring Killer Mike, Sad13, King AD

Following the release of a cryptic trailer last Friday, Philadelphia producer Lushlife is back today to share a new mixtape. For the past two months, in the wake of the presidential election, Lushlife has been feverishly at work on an album-length interdisciplinary mixtape of new content to benefit the ACLU. My Idols Are Dead and My Enemies Are in Power, or Idols + Enemies for short, is available now on a contribute-what-you-wish basis, with all proceeds going to support the ACLU.

Idols + Enemies includes features from artists such as Killer Mike, Moor Mother, Sad13 (Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz), Billy Woods, Khruangbin, and more. In addition to the musical guests, the highly political project includes recordings from several significant activists and academics to provide a wide spectrum of perspectives on the current political climate in America, from voices such as Jedediah Purdy, Nikesh Shukla, and Sut Jhally. Says Lushlife on the project, “November’s dystopian presidential election sent all of us looking for answers. My Idols Are Dead + My Enemies Are In Power brings together artists, activists, and academics to explore how we got here, and what to do next. We stand with poor folks, Muslims, people of color, the LGBTQ community, and all Americans against any attack on our civil rights.”

To coincide with the release of Idols + Enemies, Lushlife has created a new website that provides contextual information for the project, calls to action, and an integrated Rap Genius-powered lyrics page, where fans can annotate and discuss the full lyrics to the mixtape. Download My Idols Are Dead + My Enemies Are in Power above, and see below for full mixtape details as well as the dedicated website for the new project.

Lushlife
My Idols Are Dead + My Enemies Are in Power
1/17/2016

1. Sky Is Falling
2. OOOUUU ft. Elizabeth Scanlon
3. No Dead Languages (Vocal Mix) ft. Sad13
4. Mike Eagle PSA / Bus Stop
5. This Ecstatic Cult (Zilla Rocca Remix) ft. Killer Mike, Kool AD, Gabriel Bryant
6. The Heart is An Atomic Bomb ft. Billy Woods, Porochista Khakpour
7. Julie Profumo (Brexit Planet Dust) ft. Nikesh Shukla
8. I’ve Seen It Before I Was There ft. Moor Mother, Botany
9. The Feeling When You Walk Away
10. O Glowing Hunter (Stamper & Lushlife Version) ft. Sut Jhally
11. Blues for Vijay ft. Little Strike
12. 11 Theses / Anthropocene Dream ft. Jedediah Purdy, Sun Airway
13. Bashir Loves ELO ft. John Morrison, Visto, Sarah Blake
14. Totally Mutual Feeling (Remix) ft. Khruangbin

DOWNLOAD: MY IDOLS ARE DEAD + MY ENEMIES ARE IN POWER

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