Busdriver – “Thumbs” (Release) & “BlondeCurd”

Back in November, Busdriver released a new project in Thumbs, and just a week or so ago he released his “BlondeCurd” song. Since I missed both of them when they dropped, I’ve added both of them in this post. You can still purchase the cassette of Thumbs today from his Bandcamp, or get it digitally, so do that. Press play below.

Thumbs are no longer anatomical but rather the static characters of approval for a job well done. The likes that catalog our individual preferences. They grade the successes playing out in a virtual world and within our own minds. Endlessly gathered into a sprawling market-ready databases rivalled only by our idea of a God.

Thumbs was made as a mixtape by Busdriver to further explore the concept of a homogenous citizenry from his last record Perfect Hair. It draws from the defining musical tropes of the LA underground rap experience with the isolation born from racial politics fixed as a central theme. Frequent collaborators such as milo, Mono/Poly, Kenny Segal, Fumitake Tamura all appear for the most action-packed Busdriver release to date.