Justice Tripp of Angel Du$t
Justice Tripp is a rare figure. Having come to the surface with Trapped Under Ice, a brutal but deceptively genre-pushing hardcore band, Justice took the idea about a hundred steps further to form Angel Du$t—an impossible-to-define, sonic fuck-off to genre purists that also works as a love letter to the musical visionaries who inspired him to seek that kind of radical autonomy. Angel Du$t’s excellent new album, Brand New Soul, carries that vision even further.
But beyond his music, I wanted to know where this dedication to openness came from and how it plays out in his everyday life, and—true to his own credo—Justice laid himself bare in our conversation with a lack of self-consciousness that I’ve rarely seen. I’ve often said that the pr…
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