In 2019, Texas rapper Chris Conde’s EP Conde Digital came out to rave reviews and opportunities galore. Then the pandemic hit, so the longtime San Antonian Conde packed up and moved to Austin and finished up his genre-bending album, Engulfed In The Marvelous Decay, out now on the renowned Fake Four label (Open Mike Eagle, Ceschi). “The Summer of Our Discontent” is the pandemic lament we can all relate to and features Cheschi. Conde is a former San Antonio Current journalist with an amazing story- they use their music to artfully and honestly chronicle their battles with homophobia, racism, addiction, a stiflingly strict religious upbringing and the horrors of the trump administration to tell a story of not just surviving, but thriving, all while being...
