Standing On The Corner- Standing On The Corner II

Label: XL Recordings

Released 9/18/2026

Founded in Brooklyn, NY, STANDING ON THE CORNER (est. 2015) is a music recording group whose output moves mercurially between composition, performance, film, installation, social work, and sound. Rooted in the cultural exchange between the U.S.A., Puerto Rico, and Africa, the project machinates an intersection between soul, punk, salsa, doowop, jazz, funk, the avant-garde, and rap traditions, filtered through a distinctly New York City sensibility. The ensemble's practice is characterized by a mischievous alliance with ephemerality, lived experience, and site-specific signification with works often distributed unexpectedly and within limited physical windows. This emphasis on transience and communal memory remains central to the project's ethos. On SOTC "II" the New York outfit channels said philosophy into a 15-track album recorded by bandleader Gio Escobar and core collaborators Jack "Wacko" Nolan, Buz "Man-man" Donald, and Clérida "Ca$h Clay" Eltimé. The result is a tense, genre-defacing record that exists between fried psychedelia, rock-n-roll, no-wave rap, r&b, and post-hardcore energy; a mirror to a national moment of searching for meaning/nothing/sounds/silence/creation/or destruction, through an overarching instability, alienation, decline, and refusal. Collaborators include: The Warlockettes, Ladybug Mecca, Styles P, Bubba Dupree, Claudette Ortiz, Sonia Sanchez, Solange, Danny Brown

Track listing:

1. Standing On The Corner & The Warlockettes - Will it ever be the same?
2. The word
3. Standing On The Corner & Styles P & Ladybug Mecca - Man may not last
4. Evil man 9
5. Gimme my gun
6. Mr. Postman, wait!
7. Roll over beethoven 
8. Rifle prayer
9. Doesn't mean a thing
10. Standing On The Corner & Claudette Ortiz - Secrets
11. Baby! oh baby
12. The Night has arrived
13. Standing On The Corner & Sonia Sanchez & Solange - Sonia
14. Standing On The Corner & Danny Brown - How deep is the sea?
15. Go 2 sleep pu$$y