Aja Monet "When The Poems Do What They Do" 2XLP (2023)

Details: Aja Monet "When The Poems Do What They Do" 2XLP (2023, Drink Sum Wtr). Black vinyl. New stock, sealed. Description: "Aja Monet's poems are a work of gravity. They are fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon, and enacted toward. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, allowing them to exist in converse. In her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love, and the inexhaustible quest for joy. When the poems do what they do Aja Monet appears as a woman of letters and storm, her poems do not roar in pentameter - but rather in storm surge because, "Who's got time for poems when the world is on fire?!." And this work isn't one to pull apart into one-liners, these are poems of things felt. There is a fullness here that can't be encapsulated in even the boundaries that language offers. Aja Monet is a griot, a storyt