Run the Jewels begin work on Meow the Jewels, share three audio clips — listen

Run the Jewels’ Meow the Jewels is one of the year’s most anticipated albums, and for good reason. The fan-funded remix album of 2014’s RTJ2 is made entirely of cat sounds, with contributions from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, The Alchemist, Boots, Dan the Automator, Just Blaze, Baauer, and Prince Paul, among others. Yesterday, El-P began work on the record and shared three clips on Instagram:

and so it begins. #MeowTheJewels

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oh my god what am I doing with my life. #MeowTheJewels

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I play cat music hard ball.

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He also revealed the news of another special guest contributor: