"Resident Strangers" is a dense concept album: SHARP. produces entirely, Snotnoze Saleem writes and performs. The track titles reveal a remarkably wide reference field — "Nova Express" (William S. Burroughs), "Kooyanisqatsi" (the Godfrey Reggio film), "Jackson Pollock," "Imipolex G" (a direct nod to Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"), "The Evening Redness in the West" (Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"). This isn't random name-dropping but a deliberate literary and cinematic visual language merging rap with postmodern reference density. TreDoes features on "Asbestos Poisoning," Hester Valentine on "Counter-Hegemonic," DJ Mastamind on "Salty Spitoon." Recorded and mixed by Danny Clifton at Pulp Arts in Gainesville, Florida, mastered "at The Laboratory" — with the self-aware addition "that's why your small rhymes bore me." Artwork by Herratic. Also available through Illuminated Paths with a cassette option. This album demands willingness to research from the listener — and rewards it.
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