Chuck Inglish and Sir Mikey Rocks, collectively referred to as The Cool Kids, dropped their newest album, Hi Top Fade, on Friday (October 10).

Released by A-Trak’s label, Fool’s Gold, the 15-track effort is a return to the duo’s signature retro but futuristic increase bap taste. The first single from the album, “Banana in the Tailpipe” that includes Seafood Sam arrived in July, “Foil Bass” adopted in August and “95 South” that includes A-Trak and Sango dropped final month together with a video.

For the visible, The Cool Kids tapped GL-Joe to direct, the identical videographer who shot “Black Mags” in 2007.

Hi Top Fade marks The Cool Kids’ first mission since their triple album Before S### Got Weird (Chapter 1), Baby Oil Staircase (Chapter 2) and Chillout (Chapter 3). 

Speaking to SPIN in September, Mikey and Chuck mirrored on the entire challenges they needed to overcome to get to the purpose the place they had been able to make one other Cool Kids album. Despite every part they went via each personally and professionally, their friendship by no means wavered. It was that bond that has carried them via the final practically twenty years of creating music collectively.

“We got ravaged by a lot of things,” Mikey mentioned. “We had been victims of predatory trade stuff. We are victims of not figuring out learn how to navigate via this enterprise with the kind of those that you must cope with within the music trade. We had been simply youngsters who made good music. We noticed different artists stealing our concepts and file labels stealing our cash. It was robust.

“But the thing that would take us back to a place of alignment and balance was when we would get together. And that didn’t even have to be for a recording or musical reason—just together anywhere in the same space. That’s where we figured out just how strong our friendship actually was.”

Their chemistry is as sturdy as ever all through everything of Hi Top Fade. Coupled with collaborations with A-Trak, Sango, Seafood Sam and extra, it’s a wild journey from begin to end. Standouts embrace “Banana in the Tailpipe,” “Foil Bass,” “Live Wire,” “Dang…” simply take heed to it.

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