Nick Diamonds - Got The Devil 7" Vinyl Single (ft. Fat Tony, Yoni Wolf & Giovanni Marks)

Nick Diamonds - Got The Devil 7" Vinyl Single (ft. Fat Tony, Yoni Wolf & Giovanni Marks)

Nick Diamonds (Islands, The Unicorns) has never been shy about his love of hip-hop. On this  new solo 7”, he joins a few friends and collaborators from the genre with two brand new songs:  “Got the Devil” and “The River”. 

Diamonds’ relationship to hip-hop runs deep. In the interregnum between The Unicorns and  Islands, Diamonds’ played keyboards in a short-lived hip-hop group called th’ Corn Gangg,  with Islands and Unicorns bandmate Jamie Thompson. In the years after, he lent his voice to  “Bad Habits”, from Fat Tony & Bun B, and “Another One of Mine” from Open Mike Eagle and  R.A.P. Ferreira (back when he went by milo). His previous production credits included songs  with Buck 65, Busdriver and All City Jimmy (aka Nocando) as well as co-producing and singing  on “Stay Down”, the single from El-P’s 2012 release, Cancer For Cure, which culminated in a  memorable performance on the Late Show with David Letterman.  

“Got The Devil”, finds Fat Tony and Why?’s Yoni Wolf on the mic, with Nick Diamonds’ production channeling a more laid-back strain of dusty, sample laden 90s sound. The B-side,  “The River”, serves as somewhat of a spiritual sequel to the track “Where There’s A Will There’s A Whalebone” (from Islands’ 2006 debut, Return to the Sea, which featured Giovanni Marks  under his Subtitle moniker). Twenty years after the fact, Diamonds is reunited with Giovanni  Marks on “The River” and joined, once again, by Fat Tony, to pick up a conversation which  began two decades ago. Both political and personal, “The River” finds Tony and Marks in peak form atop Nick Diamonds’ fizzy beat and sticky hooks. 

Taken together, these two tracks represent Nick Diamonds’ deep love and reverence for the  genre, with a nod to the past and an eye towards the future. The limited 7” release comes  courtesy of Brooklyn’s Fused Arrow Records, the highly respected label run by steel tipped dove, and helps highlight the next stage in Nick Diamonds’ career, one that will focus on production  within the genre.

**PRE-ORDER - Will Ship Approx. Mid-December 2026**