A New White
Subtle
2004
A New White introduces, on the record (and as a recurring character in much of Subtle’s work), Hour Hero Yes, an aspiring middle-class poet and rapper. He is mentioned throughout the two Subtle LPs and both remix compilations. Hour Hero Yes is a bald man with a black and white striped face
Hour Hero Yes is both hero and fool. His skull and face above it, striped shut by the lasting effects of honesty on the dead man… he is a poet ardent…
He is a triumph of life over death… In the form of pushed pen remnants… and sing bones sung…
He began as man… mostly weak, hardly strong… a new white, is the colloquial chronicle of his becoming… all of it taking place in a one bed room apartment in Oakland… it is the slow and burst lengthy nervous breakdown/coming to clear… of yes… a resigning of himself from himself… he lets go… and finds the weight of his words… and wild behind his eyes…
At the end of the record… he opens his door… and takes a walk in a cemetery, of all places…
Stand-Out Tracks
I Heart L.A
Red, White & Blonde
F.K.O.
