Matt Proxy – Trojan Horse [Album Stream]

matt proxy releases trojan horse, his 12-track debut album with features from fakemink, Grimes, Current Joys, and never goodbye.

matt proxy pushes his volatile underground energy into a full-length statement with trojan horse, his debut album and most fleshed-out release to date. The Minneapolis rapper/producer has been moving fast through the extremely-online rap underground, and trojan horse reflects that restless motion. Across 12 tracks, he bends rage-rap, distorted trap, emo textures, guitar-driven melodies, and blown-out internet-era production into something sharp but unstable. “5” opens the record with fakemink, while Grimes appears on “NEW SOLUTION” and Current Joys links with never goodbye on the closer “God.”

There is a heavier personal thread running underneath the chaos, too. Proxy’s father narrates the album after recently being deported to Liberia following six months in ICE detention, a detail that makes trojan horse feel less like a moodboard of underground sounds and more like a young artist trying to turn real pressure into form. The record is noisy, uneven in the right ways, and wired with the kind of urgency that makes matt proxy’s rise feel hard to ignore.

Check it out below.