Prolific rapper YUNGMORPHEUS has released his new album ‘A Spyglass to One’s Face’ via Known Agitators with distribution by Fat Beats. Made in collaboration with Charlotte producer Dirty Art Club, the album marks the rapper’s first offering of the year following his 2024 collaborative album with Alexander Spit, ‘Waking Up and Choosing Violence.’ The lead single “Way The Rose Wilt” arrived with an accompanying music video directed by Grant Spanier, described by Morph as a dive into the rabbit hole written during an interesting watershed period where cliches prove themselves for a reason and time is indeed fleeting. On an intricate sonic canvas from Dirty Art Club that draws cues from hip-hop, psychedelic rock and jazz, Morpheus’ lyricism cuts through with his conversational delivery of heavy realities and caustic humour in equal measure, carving out a path in the rap landscape that’s respective of the foundational canon but not beholden to it.
Inherently in the name and lyrical themes, the 16-track album is an exercise in personal growth and expansion with YUNGMORPHEUS’ keen introspection interwoven throughout, featuring guest appearances from YL, Cavalier, Lukah, Zeroh and Ba Pace. Through his career, YUNGMORPHEUS has crafted incisively written bodies of work that stretch listener expectations of rap’s limitations, adding his quintessential style to collaborative projects with diverse artists ranging from underground hip-hop icons like Pink Siifu and Real Bad Man to punk pioneer Eyedress and Japanese electronic savant Fumitake Tamura.