Ken Carson Debuts “A Great Chaos” in Brooklyn
The kids showed up in black, ready to mosh.
A Great Chaos cover
On the night entering Friday the 13th, Brooklyn’s new venue Silo got an early sneak peek of Halloween as Opium fans flooded Williamsburg to celebrate Ken Carson’s album release of A Great Chaos. The packed-out event saw familiar faces like TiaCorine, DJ Levar, and CLIP in the crowd.
The 18-song album features Lil Uzi Vert on “Like This” and Destroy Lonely, who made a surprise performance at Silo, on “Like This” and “Paranoid.” An even more surprising guest performance: Playboi Carti. The Atlanta Opium founder and rapper, who rarely makes appearances besides music festivals, shook fans to the core when he emerged smoking a cigarette wearing a leather motorbike outfit.
A Great Chaos, Carson’s third studio album, is a continuation of his rage and hype music composition. He’s recently explored the popular genre born from social media edits: Nightcore. The not-so-genre speeds up songs by at least 35% to make them compatible with videos with a hint of 8-bit sounds. Carson experimented and achieved this in A Great Chaos on “Nightcore” and “Nightcore 2.”
The entire album was leaked on Oct. 9, just two days before the tracklist was announced to the public. Opium fans have highly anticipated a Great Chaos since Carson teased it back in February by subtly adding new merch to his website. Carson previewed snippets of songs on social media since September 2022, which may be a reason as to why it was leaked. Fans found Carson’s secret account @agreatchaos back in June not knowing it had anything to do with an album. Now that the album is officially released, listeners don’t have to resort to low-quality leaked songs.
Carson has rapped since he was 13 years old. Now 23, he is a member of Playboi Carti’s record label and creative agency Opium alongside Destroy Lonely, Playboi Carti, and Homixide Gang.
