Moonlight

"What would it sound like if RZA got in the studio with Iggy Pop and Tom Waits?" he asks. "I don€t know! That was my approach on everything." - Hanni El Khatib

That's why Hanni El Khatib's 2015 album Moonlight starts with a song that sounds like a Mobb Deep beat under a Suicide-style synth drone and ends with an ESG-meets-LCD Soundsystem gone Italo-Disco song about life and death. That's why it collides crushing crate-digger drumbeats that'd be right at home on a Can LP or an Eddie Bo 45 with bleeding distorto guitar, bent and broken barroom piano and hallucinatory analog flourishes.