Elucid (E L U C I D) is one of hip-hop's mad scientists, if you will. The underground New York fixture is always playing around with various sounds and textures, distortions and more and it's become his MO at this point. The other half of Armand Hammer has had a pretty busy 2024, dropping off two projects and a multitude of singles along the way. Him and billy woods struck in late February with We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, which included features from equally wild MCs like JPEGMAFIA and Pink Siifu. Then, in the early moments of October, that's when Elucid would make his solo return with REVELATOR. It's another fantastic LP that saw him get philosophical and speak on societal issues.
It's got a lot of industrial and noise hop elements, adding to its confrontational and chaotic tone. Now, Elucid is closing out his year with a release for the hardcore fans out there who crave a little more. Over the weekend, he shared what he's titling "INTERFERENCE PATTERN." It's one 41-minute-long track/album that has numerous phases. It's probably more of the latter due to that explanation as it contains rapping, pure instrumentals, voice recordings, and messy sound effects. But it's a messy in an interesting and thought-provoking way. If you want to check it out, you have to head over to his Bandcamp to give it a whirl. While it's got elements of his last endeavor, we feel this leans into more of sci-fi/fantasy epic. Its ideas feel jumbled so it's a difficult to determine where Elucid is going with it. But it's worth a shot and it's a cool way to end of 2024.