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Zelooperz and Black Noi$e set November release for recovered album

Pin Breakers will arrive through Earl Sweatshirt’s Tan Cressida label, with Danny Brown as its sole guest.

By Priya Ramanathan

Microphone and mixing equipment in a recording studio
Photo: Stereogum

Detroit rapper Zelooperz and producer Black Noi$e will release their collaborative album Pin Breakers on November 13. Completed in 2019, the project was held on a hard drive that went missing before Black Noi$e eventually recovered it.

The November release follows the album’s availability on Bandcamp in June. It marks Zelooperz’s debut release through Tan Cressida, the label belonging to Earl Sweatshirt. “Beautician,” the lead single, runs a little over one minute and appears third on the 11-track record.

Work on the collaboration began in 2017, while both artists lived at Bruiser House, the base for Danny Brown’s Bruiser Brigade crew. They spent two years recording the album. Brown provides its only guest appearance, on the track “Nostradamus.”

The album’s name refers to a shoulder injury Black Noi$e sustained at a bowling alley in Glendale. Other tracks include “Listen,” “Pain T Wayne,” “River Rouge” and the closing song, “Aha aha.”

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