The Good Book Volume 1

Not long after LA-via-UK producer Budgie put out his two-volume gospel mixtape series The Gospel According to Budgie, Alchemist rang him up and got the gears turning on a collab. The plan: Budgie supplies the church-music rarities, and Alc makes beats out of them — an 87-minute sermon where most of the testifying is done at an MPC pulpit. That means a not-entirely-secular experience where catching the spirit involves letting in all those pitch-tweaked, hypnotically looped choirs and fervent piano chords to guide your soul.