DJ Shadow Announces New Double Album Our Pathetic Age with Special Guests Run the Jewels, Nas, Paul Banks, De La Soul and More

After three years hiatus, DJ Shadow finally drops the follow-up to 2016’s The Mountain Will Fall. Our Pathetic Age, as a double LP, will be released on November 15th via Mass Appeal Records.

Early teasers from the album are “Rosie,” released from the instrumental half of the album and “Rocket Fuel” featuring De La Soul. Titled as Our Pathetic Age, the 23-track album consists of two parts. The first half is 11 new instrumental pieces, while the second half assembles star-studded vocal appearance from Run The Jewels, Nas, Paul Banks singer of Interpol, De La Soul, Dave East, Ghostface Killah, Samuel T. Herring singer of Future Islands and more. Track “Drone Warfare (feat. Nas, Pharaohe Monch)” marks the second collaboration for Nas and DJ Shadow, the duo previously collaborated in DJ Shadow’s EP entitled The Mountain Has Fallen.

To further showcase the intention and inspiration behind the album, DJ Shadow states:

“More than anything, I try to get a sense of the mood of society as a whole. The subtle signals that humans send each other, the way people behave, their frustrations and ebbs and flows. In my part of the world, people are scared. There’s rampant homelessness, and a real fear of falling into generational poverty. People are addicted to, and addled by distraction; they’re angry and confused, and disaffected by their own governmental institutions. There’s songs that are inspired by this energy and seek to harness it, to make sense of it. In some cases, there’s attempts to salve the wound; in others, the songs merely observe but don’t offer solutions. Despite the title, it’s a hopeful, vibrant album…there is always light in darkness. I want it to reflect the times we live in, a signpost in the ground to mark the era…Our Pathetic Age.”

Watch “Rosie” music video on Youtube now. Check out the album cover and tracklists below.

Our Pathetic Age Art Work:

Our Pathetic Age Track List:

1. Nature Always Wins
2. Slingblade
3. Intersectionality
4. Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law
5. Juggernaut
6. Firestorm
7. Weightless
8. Rosie
9. If I Died Today
10. My Lonely Room
11. We Are Always Alone
12. Drone Warfare (feat. Nas, Pharaohe Monch)
13. Rain On Snow (feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon)
14. Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)
15. C.O.N.F.O.R.M. (feat. Gift of Gab, Lateef The Truth Speaker, Infamous Taz)
16. Small Colleges (Stay With Me) (feat. Wiki, Paul Banks)
17. JoJo’s Words (feat. Stro)
18. Kings & Queens (feat. Run the Jewels)
19. Taxin’ (feat. Dave East)
20. Dark Side of the Heart (feat. Fantastic Negrito, Jumbo is Dr.ama)
21. I Am Not A Robot (Interlude)
22. Urgent, Important, Please Read (feat. Rockwell Knuckles, Tef Poe, Daemon)
23. Our Pathetic Age (feat. Samuel T. Herring)

Photo Credit: Sharon Alagna