Khalil Nova - Vaporizers (Internet, 2011)

Khalil Nova’s next mixtape, I’m The Black Layne Staley, is set for a release on 1.31, and he’s rigorously at work on the mixtape (as well as giving beats to Danny Brown). Over the past week, a couple leaks from the tape have emerged on Khalil’s Soundcloud, and they sound every bit as abstractly soothing as his 808s of Death tape.

Vaporizers finds Khalil getting lost further in distortion, his shrill, yet tempered voice mashing ever so gently against the loopy instrumental. It’s hard not to get lost in Vaporizers, which is every bit as inducing as the vapors Khalil was on when recording this. Salute the young Shogun!