INTERVIEWSStream Height With Friends' Full 'Rock and Roll' LP

Rock-informed Baltimore rapper Dan Keech's new album is due out tomorrow on Friends/Cold Rhymes

"It's not a bed of flowers to be on the grind," Dan Keech deadpans on "Hard Work," from the Baltimore underground mainstay's upcoming album as Height and Friends. You wouldn't have known it from the free-spirited Rock and Roll, which arrives tomorrow via Friends/Cold Rhymes and puts the results of that grind on full display. The album title only tells half the truth: This Dan Deacon tourmate draws heavily from fuzzed-out rock aesthetics, but he's first and foremost a rapper, one with a distinctively off-kilter viewpoint. Hear the full album below, including guest contributions from such fellow Baltimore musicians as Kevin O'Meara of Dan Deacon Orchestra, producers Mickey Free and King Rhythm, and rootsy dream-pop duo Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack.

• 03:48PlayHeight With Friends — I Can't Stand To Be Refused
• 02:13PlayHeight With Friends — Mustard Seed
• 02:54PlayHeight With Friends — Dead Motor
• 01:52PlayHeight With Friends — I Can't Stop Eating Sugar (Ed Schrader Cover)
• 02:13PlayHeight With Friends — Hard Work
• 02:59PlayHeight With Friends — Too Much Time
• 01:01PlayHeight With Friends — Triumph Over Sadness
• 02:28PlayHeight With Friends — Oswego Speedway
• 06:34PlayHeight With Friends — Moscow