Nothing like a crispy new jam on your Thursday.

If the new collaborative album Sunset Cities from So.Crates, Nelson Dialect, and Alnitak Kid is anywhere near as tasty as their debut track ‘Oh Baby’, or a fraction as cool as their first clip we are wholeheartedly into it. With a bouncy, yet stuttered groove from Skomes (one half of So.Crates), rhymes from Nelson Dialect and Cazeaux O.S.L.O (the other half of So.Crates), and a huge vocal from Hiatus Kaiyote’s Jace XL, the Adelaide collective has sucked us in hook, line, and sinker

“I wanted to make a Hip Hop song I could easily play after a Spinners or Four Tops record. For me, this is our version of a barbershop quartet, or trio,” Nelson Dialect says of the tune. “Sharing tales of a love in its inception and also when that love can reach its unexpected or confusing conclusion. Do you love now love? It’s better to have loved and share the tale and enjoy that for what it is than to have not.”

The clip features the ensemble in a roadside diner you could imagine stumbling into somewhere in the Arizona Desert. “The inspiration of the soul era vocal groups was something we wanted to communicate with the music video directed and shot by Dayne Edward. It is meant to be felt as a short film; the video takes place in an old 50’s style American diner,” Nelson Dialect says. “Myself & Cazeaux O.S.L.O wax lyrical about experiences at the diner booth with a love interest on set, while Jace XL is cooking up the soul in the back kitchen.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDh2_NkRBU8&feature=youtu.be

Like what you’re seeing? Sunset Cities will be available for your listening pleasure Friday 22 February via Bedroom Suck / Remote Control, and the collective will be hitting the road to play the Melbourne Hip Hop Festival February 22nd (info here), Melbourne’s Northside Records February 23rd (info here), and Adelaide’s Rocket Bar March 2nd (info here)