Duncecap

The culmination of more than a decade-and-a-half’s worth of friendship and creative camaraderie, Comfortable Suffering marks a full-length, full-circle moment for Duncecap and Samurai Banana. More than a mere follow-up to the NYC-based rapper-meets-producer duo’s 2016 album Human Error, the long-awaited reunion by these chummy alums of the ‘we are the karma kids’ indie hip-hop collective offers a rich and disquietingly relatable vision of our modern lives. Those accustomed to Duncecap’s generally sad songs in the vein of his Backwoodz Studioz debut Miserable Then or the intricate introspection of Pay Or Dispute and the steel tipped dove team-up The Need To Know might be taken aback by the confrontational, at times furious nature of the material here. Emboldened by Banana’s unruly, maximalist beats, the cuttingly witty emcee unearths a dormant delivery teeming with the high-energy indignation found in their older work together. That rediscovered aggression amplifies the artist’s capacity for self-reflection and channels it into a Lennon-esque primal scream. Amid this cathartic exercise, Duncecap takes both himself and others to task, raging against late capitalism and normalized...