nascar aloe returns with ‘UNDERSTUDY’ featuring fellow whiplash aficionado Jasaih, off his upcoming studio album, AUDIO SHRAPNEL, out June 26 on Epitaph Records. The viscerally aggressive meltdown is a nod to 2019’s SH!THEAD, a cacophony of digital glitches and feverish 808s, laced in his usual reckless and nihilistic lyricism. Speaking on his collaboration nascar shares, “Jasiah and I have been friends for far longer than our careers have been prospering for, working with him is like an extension of myself or rather, me an extension of him. Clockwork.” The lurching low-end rap makes for a listening experience that resembles what might happen if you swapped your therapist’s couch for a ride on a roller coaster, seatbelt optional.
Watch the music video for ‘UNDERSTUDY’ featuring Jasaih.
AUDIO SHRAPNEL is a record humming with volatile intent, a mix of what nascar would call “aggressive rap, insubordination, speedcore, 808punk,” or even “RADIO STATION OBLITERATION.” Culminating from a time of despair, change, and grief, AUDIO SHRAPNEL is a testament to where he is as an artist and where we are as a society. Through aggressive, erratic vocalisation, nascar crudely delivers lines condemning genocide, the military-industrial complex, and politically toeing the line, revealing the album is, “something that paints that dilapidated picture of the world through nascar’s eyes, truly.”
Following 2024’s SPEED, AUDIO SHRAPNEL finds nascar sharpening his skills and honing in on the genres that he helped define and blur the lines of. Like most of his records, nascar found creativity in unbridled anger, from “fits of drunken anger” to the sobering, clearer, more refined bits you hear in ‘BABY’ and ‘1091-D.’ The synth-punk manifestos denounce the political hellfire in the US, with nascar screaming “AMERICAN LIES, FED TO THE, FED TO THE, FED TO THE RIGHT, RED ON YOUR HANDS TIL YOU’RE DEAD OUT OF SIGHT,” on the out-front ‘MAGA (MORE AMERICAN GRAVES AMMEDIATELY).’
The LA-based Cambodian American artist has been a polarising figure in the underground rap scene since 2018, steadily cultivating a community that embraces his brilliantly pissed-off POV. Now equipped with a catalog of four EPs, two full-length albums, nascar has amassed over 250 million streams to date.
nascar aloe
AUDIO SHRAPNEL
- VENUE BATHROOM
- UNITED STATES
- LANDMINE
- BABY
- APOLITICAL
- UNCLE SAM
- SUMTHIN
- 1091-D
- AUDIO SHRAPNEL
- DISTANT (INTERLUDE)
- 45
- A DOLLAR OR TWO
- CKY
- UNDERSTUDY FEAT. JASIAH
- MAGA (MORE AMERICAN GRAVES AMMEDIATELY)
- YABBADABBADOO (SPED)
- I DON’T CARE (COVER)
- MOVE 2 AMERICA
- EXERCISE
- PISSHOLE
- MESS
- HEAVEN 4 OUTRO
For more information on nascar aloe, visit:
