DJ Shadow: The Mountain Will Fall (2LP, 10th anniversary) [MASS APPEAL]

Why you'll love it

A 10th anniversary 2LP set with alternate cover art, a gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeves. Robert Christgau called it DJ Shadow's best album since The Private Press, and it includes "Nobody Speak" with Run The Jewels.

This edition

• 10th anniversary edition
• 2LP set in a gatefold jacket
• Alternate cover art
• Printed inner sleeves

About the album

By 2016, Josh Davis had spent two decades being asked to make Endtroducing..... again, and The Mountain Will Fall is his most relaxed answer to that question. His fifth album came out on Mass Appeal and leans into a brisk, electronic sound, while keeping the sample-hunter's ear that made his name. Spin heard a coherence his previous two records had been reaching for.

The guests are well chosen. Run The Jewels turn up on "Nobody Speak," a brass-heavy, deadpan single, and Nils Frahm joins him on "Bergschrund." Elsewhere "Three Ralphs," "Ghost Town" and "California" shift between head-nod hip hop and widescreen synth work. Ten years on, it is a record that rewards the kind of listening a 2LP set encourages, which is to say sitting down and not touching your phone.

Tracklist

Listen

Out August 21, 2026 on Mass Appeal (cat# MSAP0034LP10), a reissue of the 2016 album.