Nas - Illmatic Real Gone Music D’Agostino and Empty Country shatter

D’Agostino and Empty Country shatter ambivalence and confront the horrors with a community-minded sense of cautious optimism

First Two Pages of Frankenstein was initially stalled while lead singer Matt Berninger navigated “a very dark spot where I couldn’t come up with lyrics or melodies at all

every song on the record we wrote together" Angus says

Formed in the small town of Denton

“The new album is really a reflection on what has been happening to us these last couple of years

Nas - Illmatic Real Gone Music D’Agostino and Empty Country shatter"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death." No album better reflected the sound and style of New York, 94. Raw rap, soul samples and beat breaks. A gifted writer whose wordplay knows no bounds, Nas tells his own story, the archetypal anti hero with ambitions of ruling the world, escaping the conflict, violence and brutality of New York's underbelly. The son of Jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas draws on Jazz influences, with producer Pete Rock