Dope Lemon

DOPE LEMON aka Angus Stone has amassed 650+ million streams across his three widely acclaimed albums and EP, Honey Bones (2016), Hounds Tooth EP (2017), Smooth Big Cat (2019), and Rose Pink Cadillac (2022). In 2023 there will be a new album entitled Kimosabè and a large scale world tour.

Kimosabè is a divine, open-armed, open-ended universe. It’s the first Dope Lemon album that reveals the face of Stone, the project’s impresario himself, on the album’s cover, because “this record is everything that’s me.” “In the past, the artwork has been real anonymous, in a way, because I was trying to explore these styles, and having this shield in front of me was beautiful; I could sort of slink around in the shadows and wouldn’t have the public make judgement on the person behind it,” Stone says. “This record, I had moments of clarity reflecting on my childhood and I was able to see where I want to be in the future. Putting myself on the cover just felt right.”

After two albums that were spectacular and sprawling on a song-to-song level, Kimosabè consciously pulls things back: this is satiating, nutrient-dense music, soul food in sound form. Drawing from the driving power of '90s indie rock as well as classic surf rock and even warm, tape-warped hip-hop instrumentalists like Madlib, it’s an album for those warm days that stretch into humid, starlit evenings.