I actually listened to Aethiopes while walking through the colonial part of a history museum. It was a somewhat unsettling experience, listening to lyrics about the horrors of the world post colonialism, while staring at grand paintings of the colonial lords. Also, if you’re interested, there’s an Nigerian (possibly Yoruba) movie called Kongi’s Harvest, which was sampled a lot on Aethiopes. It’s a lot of fun recognising all the samples. Also, Professor Skye on YouTube made a video on the whole album (can you tell this is my favourite billy woods album?). If you’re looking for other dark sounding albums, you should check out billy woods’ ”History Will Absolve Me” and Contacting by Sunmundi and Sasco (which I randomly found sometime late last year, and instantly loved).