Hear RXK Nephew Join Courting On “rollback freestyle”

Before today, perhaps the only thing Courting and RXK Nephew had in common were their shared status as Stereogum Artists To Watch. Today, their worlds collide, as the genre-jumping Liverpool indie band welcomes the Rochester street rap surrealist onto a new track. It’s called “rollback freestyle,” and, after a brief buildup, it finds Neph kicking out bars like “I’ll start tweakin’ like Kanye/ Might paint your hair like Dennis Rodman” over a skronking noise-rock backbeat that reminds me of Gilla Band. It’s the kind of track I imagine Danny Brown hopping on, and it’s giving me nostalgia for the indie-blog music landscape of the 2010s.