The new album by Speaker Music aka DeForrest Brown Jr is released on Juneteenth – a holiday which celebrates the official end of slavery – and acts as a response to recent events in the US and the nationwide anti-racism protests following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. It's described as a “street-level fire music” and explores poet Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s concept of stereomodernism – or as Jaji says, “dubbing in stereo for solidarity”.

Brown’s second release for Planet Mu following 2019’s a desire, longing, Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry is a “mobilisation beyond the savage free market capitalist industrial system, and towards a future that isn’t indebted to the fictive and failing socio-economic ‘progress’ imagined within the frames of White American techno-utopianism”, according to the release notes on Bandcamp.

The album is accompanied by a PDF booklet of writings by black theorists and poets. Opening track “Amerikkka’s Bay” features a text written and read by Maia Sanaa, remixed by Brown.

It's available on Bandcamp now with the label's proceeds going to BEAM and M4BL.