In a city where the echoes of Babyface’s polished R&B and the defiant soul of Etheridge Knight still linger, 81355 (pronounced ‘bless’) doesn’t just contribute to Indianapolis’ music lineage—they disrupt, reinterpret, and transcend it. A coalition of sonic architects—Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, and David “Moose” Adamson (Sedcairn)—the trio fractures traditional hip-hop frameworks, forging something that feels both archival and futuristic, urgent and eternal.

If hip-hop is a house of mirrors, 81355 smashes the glass, reassembling the shards into something entirely their own. Their sound moves like an abstract mural in flux, bending echoes of avant-garde boom-bap, subterranean electronic textures, and freeform lyrical incantations. The trio siphons the urgency of early Stones Throw, the cosmic sprawl of Shabazz Palaces, and the deconstructed poetry of the human experience , yet their roots remain firmly planted in the soil of the Indianapolis underground—a scene that has long thrived in the margins, despite (or perhaps because of) the city’s resistance to championing its own cultural vanguards.