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# Armand Hammer Snakes and Ladders: Tracklist, Vinyl and the Dozen Producers Behind It
- URL: https://www.unknowndivide.com/armand-hammer-snakes-and-ladders/
- Published: 2026-11-13T12:13:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-13T12:13:23.000Z
- Description: billy woods and ELUCID are back a year after Mercy, and this time they handed the beats to a dozen producers, clipping. among them. Here is the full tracklist, who made what kind of record, and why the vinyl run of 8,000 is already nearly gone.
- Author: unknowndivide staff
- Tags: Music

A year almost to the day after [Mercy](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/mercy?ref=unknowndivide.com), their second full album with The Alchemist, billy woods and ELUCID have put out another Armand Hammer record, and they went the other way. [Snakes & Ladders](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/snakes-ladders?ref=unknowndivide.com) landed on Bandcamp on November 11 with sixteen tracks and a dozen production credits, the duo's widest spread of beatmakers since 2023's We Buy Diabetic Test Strips. Two days later, the physical editions are close to gone. As of Friday morning the cassette is sold out, the CD is down to 49 copies from an edition of 3,000, and the black vinyl has 127 left from an edition of 8,000.

The duo describe it as a record written and recorded over the winter of 2025 into 2026, full of extremes: intimacy, compassion and conviction set against fear, anger and violence. It is a short, dense album. Sixteen songs run 43 minutes, nothing passes three and a half, and the shortest, TimesTables, is over in 1:43.

## Who made the beats

The credits read like a map of where underground rap production sits right now: Preservation, clipping., Animoss, Kenny Segal, Sebb Bash, Mekala Session, Child Actor, Saint Abdullah with Eomac, Theravada, Jeff Markey, Messiah Musik and Steel Tipped Dove, who also engineered the sessions.

Put it next to [We Buy Diabetic Test Strips](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/we-buy-diabetic-test-strips?ref=unknowndivide.com) from 2023 and you can see the circle. Preservation, Child Actor, Kenny Segal, Sebb Bash, Jeff Markey, Steel Tipped Dove and Messiah Musik all worked on that record too. The new names are the interesting part. clipping., the noise-rap trio, are the loudest addition, and Saint Abdullah and Eomac pull in sounds from experimental electronic music. DJ Haram, who produced on the 2023 album, steps out from behind the decks to feature on Graveside, and $ilkmoney joins on Risk.

One thing never changes. Willie Green mixed and mastered it at The Greenhouse, as he did on [Paraffin](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/paraffin?ref=unknowndivide.com), [Shrines](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/shrines?ref=unknowndivide.com), [Haram](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/haram?ref=unknowndivide.com) and Mercy. The one exception here is Nightswim, which Kenny Segal mixed himself.

![Armand Hammer Snakes and Ladders 12 inch black vinyl LP with its illustrated jacket and inner sleeve](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/41/254117cc-2631-4fb7-9f78-fa31eac12f1a/content/images/2026/11/armand-hammer-snakes-ladders-vinyl-lp.jpg)

The 140g black vinyl, in a jacket by Shane Ingersoll with an inner sleeve by Ashes57\. Image: Armand Hammer (official)

## Snakes and Ladders tracklist

1. Deadbolts (3:21)
2. Send for Me (2:11)
3. Lock Out/Tag Out (2:09)
4. Jet Magazine (3:07)
5. Nightswim (2:56)
6. TimesTables (1:43)
7. don't say it if it isn't true (2:37)
8. Gravity (1:45)
9. Vespers (2:44)
10. Dragon Teeth (2:49)
11. Incidentals (1:53)
12. Graveside f. DJ Haram (3:29)
13. Dogville (3:16)
14. Assembly Lines (2:48)
15. Risk f. $ilkmoney (3:14)
16. if we must die (3:18)

The whole album is streaming on Bandcamp. Play it below.

[Snakes & Ladders by Armand Hammer](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/snakes-ladders?ref=unknowndivide.com)

## Armand Hammer Snakes and Ladders vinyl, CD and cassette

All the physical editions use Shane Ingersoll's artwork, a hand-drawn cutaway of dungeon rooms linked by ladders, with serpents, loot and skulls in the cells. It is a board game turned into a trap, which fits the title. Each one ships within 10 days of ordering.

- **12 inch vinyl:** 140g black vinyl in a custom inner sleeve drawn by Ashes57, inside a standard jacket. Edition of 8,000, with 127 left at the time of writing.
- **CD:** comes with a 9-panel, two-sided fold-out poster that opens to just over 14 inches square, plus a full-color inlay and disc label. Edition of 3,000, with 49 left.
- **Cassette:** ferro tape in a UV-printed shell with no window and a J-card that folds out into four extra panels. Sold out.
- **Digital:** download in 24-bit/48kHz, with the album streaming free on Bandcamp now.

![Armand Hammer Snakes and Ladders CD with the fold-out poster opened](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/41/254117cc-2631-4fb7-9f78-fa31eac12f1a/content/images/2026/11/armand-hammer-snakes-ladders-cd-poster.jpg)

The CD edition and its fold-out poster, which opens to over 14 inches square. Image: Armand Hammer (official)

If this is your way in, the catalog is all on the [Armand Hammer Bandcamp page](https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/?ref=unknowndivide.com). Haram from 2021 was the first time the duo made a whole album with a single producer, and it is still the easiest door. If you are building out a record shelf, our [vinyl collector's guide](https://www.unknowndivide.com/gifts-for-vinyl-collectors/) has the gear to play it on, starting with the [Pro-Ject Debut Carbon](https://www.unknowndivide.com/pro-ject-debut-carbon/).

![Armand Hammer Snakes and Ladders cassette with UV-printed shell and fold-out J-card](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/41/254117cc-2631-4fb7-9f78-fa31eac12f1a/content/images/2026/11/armand-hammer-snakes-ladders-cassette.jpg)

The cassette, already sold out. Image: Armand Hammer (official)

**Our call: buy the vinyl today if you want it.** An 8,000-copy pressing is a big run for an underground rap record, and it is close to gone two days in. If it sells out before you get there, the CD is the better collector's piece anyway because of the poster. Then play it front to back. At 43 minutes it is short enough for one sitting, and the sequencing is part of the point.