- The cover of Surf
Last night Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment—the band he plays in with Chance the Rapper, Nate Fox, and Peter Cottontale—dropped their highly anticipated album Surf for free via iTunes. Chance is the most prominent member of the Social Experiment, which served as his backing band when he toured on his fantastic 2013 mixtape Acid Rap, and while his distinctly coiled raps, yips, and tender coos are all over Surf, the album is fronted by Donnie Trumpet, aka former Kids These Days trumpet player Nico Segal.
I didn’t want to repeat the same pattern with Surf, and I didn’t want to wait to hear it till I was home, so I jumped to the iTunes store on my phone and downloaded Surf—it’s the only album I’ve downloaded straight onto my year-old (ish) iPhone that wasn’t forced onto the device by U2 or Apple. But I didn’t have a pair of headphones on me, so last night I cranked the volume on my phone’s speakers to 11 and blasted Surf as loud as I could.
