Founded in Brooklyn, NY, STANDING ON THE CORNER (est. 2015) is a music recording group whose output moves mercurially between composition, performance, film, installation, social work, and sound. Rooted in the cultural exchange between the U.S.A., Puerto Rico, and Africa, the project machinates an intersection between soul, punk, salsa, doowop, jazz, funk, the avant-garde, and rap traditions, filtered through a distinctly New York City sensibility.

The ensembles practice is characterized by a mischievous alliance with ephemerality, lived experience, and site-specific signification with works often distributed unexpectedly and within limited physical windows. This emphasis on transience and communal memory remains central to the projects ethos.

On SOTC II the New York outfit channels said philosophy into a 15-track album recorded by bandleader Gio Escobar and core collaborators Jack Wacko Nolan, Buz Man-man Donald, and Clrida Ca$h Clay Eltim. The result is a tense, genre-defacing record that exists between fried psychedelia, rock-n-roll, no-wave rap, r&b, and post-hardcore energy; a mirror to a national moment of searching for meaning/nothing/sounds/silence/creation/or destruction, through an overarching instability, alienation, decline, and refusal.

Featured artists include: The Warlockettes, Ladybug Mecca, Styles P, Bubba Dupree, Claudette Ortiz, Sonia Sanchez, Solange, Danny Brown

Tracklisting:
1. Will it ever be the same? [ft. The Warlockettes]
2. The word
3. Man may not last [ft. Ladybug Mecca, Styles P]
3. Evil man 9
5. Gimme my gun
6. Mr. Postman, wait!
7. Roll over Beethoven
8. Rifle prayer
9. Doesn’t mean a thing [ft. Bubba Dupree]
10. Worried about what i say
11. Secrets [ft. Claudette Ortiz]
12. Baby, oh baby!
13. The Night has arrived
14. Sonia [ft. Sonia Sanchez, Solange]
15. How deep is the sea? [ft. Danny Brown]
16. Go 2 sleep pu$$y