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California hip-hop icons and guys from that one episode of The Simpsons Cypress Hill have announced they’ll be dropping their eagerly anticipated ninth album Elephants On Acid this coming September 28.

Cypress Hill’s first full-length record in eight years and marks their freshly-inked partnership with label BMG, and sees the welcome return of erstwhile lynchpin DJ Muggs, his first outing with the group since 2004’s Til Death Do Us Part.

“Anything can happen when Muggs, B-Real, and myself get together to record,” gushes the excellently-monikered Sen Dog. “We were kids when we first got together. We’ve grown up as men now, but the chemistry is still the same. When we first came out in the nineties, we sounded like nobody else; we sounded like ourselves. This is another continuation.”

“The album is both a trip back to the roots and an escape into a completely new world,” remarked the other one, B-Real.

Billed intriguingly as “a 21-track-interlude mix", Elephants On Acid plays out “like a rap odyssey around the world, through other dimensions, and back to the hood.”

Now, before you dismiss that as a load of old PR wank, Muggs, apparently, began gathering material together for the record way back in 2013. Get this – he had a dream of an out-of-body experience as a man with an elephant head. Yeah.

And in the meantime was out and about crafting beats around the world, recording in Egypt between spending time alone in King Solomon’s Tomb, laying down ill flows in Jordan after floating in the Dead Sea, and “experiencing Joshua Tree with third eye wide open”.

Which means he did drugs in the desert, probably.

Anyway, cool, they’ll be touring obvs, and the UK leg will see Cypress Hill in Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, finishing at London’s 02 Academy in Brixton – their biggest tour in the UK for over a decade.

TOUR DATES
NOVEMBER
30 - Manchester, Academy
DECEMBER
01 Leeds, 02 Academy
03 Glasgow, Barrowland
04 Birmingham, 02 Academy
05 London, 02 Academy Brixton
Tickets are on sale now and VIP packages available at cypresshill.com

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