The expansive first studio album from one of NYC's most vital new bands. 75 Dollar Bill, the duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York. 

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Back in print! 75 Dollar Bill’s brilliant 2016 album Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock, Deluxe LP Edition. Rick Brown and Che Chen’s first proper studio album together lays the blueprint for one of the most adventurous and celebrated group sounds to emerge from NYC in the past decade. 

“New York’s 75 Dollar Bill are an astonishingly potent next stage in an ongoing cultural exchange…magnificent; like a gnawa ritual that’s been convened by Junior Kimbrough.” – Uncut (75 Best Albums of 2016)

“The instrumental duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown have been blowing minds on the East Coast live circuit with little more than an electric guitar and a wooden crate rhythm section.” – The Wire (Best Releases of the Year)

“Gloriously mind-frying, ritualistic splatter of Zen blues and Arabic and African music-influenced riff-rock repetition that shows Brown and Chen expanding their lineup with sax, violin, bass and second guitar. The sound may be bigger with a sweeter shine yet it remains unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill: epically shambolic, thrifty and jazzy guitarscapes dripping of ecstatic hypnotism.” – The Observer (The Best Experimental Albums of 2016)

“It’s hard not to slip into ridiculous hyperbole when it comes to 75 Dollar Bill. Best band in New York City? Best band in the USA? Best band in the universe?…they’ve definitely nailed down a thrillingly original sound."  Aquarium Drunkard