Super Duty Tough Work - Guillotine Dreams (Official Video)

Polaris Prize nominated Canadian rap collective, Super Duty Tough Work, announce that they will release their debut album September 8th, and now share lead single, 'Guillotine Dreams'.

Inspired by the dirty jazz sample sound of the 90s east coast but realised entirely with live instrumentation, Super Duty Tough Work embody hip hop's quintessential era. Appearing as a band, they manifest a sound that’s more akin to something straight out of an MPC or SP-404 sampler. The group released their debut EP ‘Studies in Grey’ in 2019, receiving a Polaris nod followed by a nomination for a Western Canadian Music Award.

'Guillotine Dreams' repurposes a Rage Against The Machine lyric over cuts from legendary Canadian DJ Skratch Bastid (and samples of frontman Brendan Grey's Grandmother singing), to take aim at settler-colonialism and the dispossession of indigenous people, alongside the festishisation of black culture.

It's personal territory for Grey, raised by a climate policy specialist (his father), and a speech writer working in anti-racism in the 80s and 90s (his mother), whose grandmother broke colourline barriers in the prairies as the first black pharmacist, and grandfather was an educator and cousin of both record-breaking pianist Winnifred Atwell and civil rights leader & Black Panther, Kwame Ture.