Name: Tao
Brand: Shad

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SCR125LPX

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Colour

blue

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Gatefold Cardboard Jacket With Printed Inner Sleeve With Lyrics

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0680341256016

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

SCR125CD

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Download code: No

0600341256023

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Shad

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Secret City

Over the course of five records to date, JUNO Award-winning Toronto rapper Shad has used an array of old-school tools to tackle modern problems, addressing the indignities and absurdities of our world through a shapeshfiting melange of boom-bap breaks, dusty soul samples, jazzy improvisation, and 10 dollar words rolled into thousand-dollar rhymes. But after weaving his myriad musical and philosophical interests into a narrative socio-political song cycle—2018’s <i>A Short Story About a War</i>—Shad began building his sixth record, Tao, from a much simpler concept: an image of a circle. Though, in true Shad fashion, he saw something much more profound within its basic round boundaries. “The thing that inspired this record was this image in my mind of a circle, but it’s getting fragmented, and then the pieces start floating away from each other,” he explains. “And that felt to me like a picture of ourselves as individuals. If you think of our humanity as one whole, there’s all these different aspects of that, whether that’s work, or our relationship to the land, or our relationship to the transcendent, or our relationship to our bodies, or to our inner child?”

Music GB