It's been a long road for Azealia Banks' debut album. She graced our cover in June of 2012 and Broke With Expensive Taste was, supposedly, soon to follow. After leaving her label earlier this year, the fate of that album was left hanging in the balance. But now Azealia Banks has pulled a much less polished Beyoncé, dropping her album today with almost no notice, and we couldn't be more excited to hear the album now that it's finally out in the world. Banks has lamented the music industry before, so it only makes sense that she's releasing this album on her own, unconventional terms. "The music industry is like a machine," she told us back in June. "It's always going, and this new generation of artists -- me, A$AP Rocky, RitaOra -- we're the fuel that's keeping it going. And once you get in that machine you've gotta run with it. There's a crazy inertia that's been going for years and years and years, and it's not gonna stop for you, so you've gotta keep fucking working. The minute you stop working, that's when you get stuck in the gears. And that's when it grinds you up and spits you out."
Broke With Expensive Taste is listed on Spotify, although you can't stream it just yet, and it's also up on iTunes, with the release date listed for tomorrow. Her excellent dance track "Chasing Time," which was released on Banks' Soundcloud back in September, appears on the album and with track names like "Nude Beach A-Go-Go" and "Ice Princess" we can only guess, and hope, that this album is going to be everything we love about Azealia Banks.
Here's the tracklist for Broke With Expensive Taste: 1. Idle Delilah
2. Gimme a Chance
3. Desperado
4. JFK [ft. Theophilus London]
5. 212 [ft. Lazy Jay]
6. Wallace
7. Heavy Metal and Reflective
8. BBD
9. Ice Princess
10. Yung Rapunxel
11. Soda
12. Chasing Time
13. Luxury
14. Nude Beach A-Go-Go
15. Miss Amor
16. Miss Camaraderie
