Souls of Mischief co-founder A-Plus and Compound 7 cohort AAGEE are proud to announce the upcoming release of their collaboration Molly's Dirty Water. The hip-hop veterans cite their experiences partying at EDM clubs as inspiration for this experimental new project, which fuses a hip-hop attitude with the sonic vocabulary of EDM production styles. The mix of instrumental-only tracks and tracks with lyrics makes for a diverse project with glitch-hop roots. Labeling their character "Molly" as a drug reference would be an oversimplification: A-Plus says of their concept, "...some songs are more about a cool girl named Molly, others about a not so cool girl named Molly."
While A-Plus and AAGEE are no strangers to experimentation - the Oakland, California based musicians' last release was the Red Hot Chili Peppers-inspired release Pepper Spray - the new album Molly's Dirty Water pushes the boundaries of hip-hop even further. A-Plus, who produced the iconic song "'93 til Infinity" which solidified Souls of Mischief's place in hip-hop history describes, "I was free to try different things out both lyrically and production-wise. Once again, stuff that wouldn't fly in the Hiero paradigm. I enjoyed the freedom to experiment, because any hip-hop purist backlash I'd normally get was kind of removed from the gate, due to the experimental nature of the music and subject matter..."