Listen to Angel Haze, “Moonrise Kingdom”

Angel Haze understands that the medium is supposed to bend to the message. The Detroit native has spent their career flexing considerably technical ability, running circles around the rappers who secured release dates while Dirty Gold languished on the proverbial shelf. But since Haze went rogue and leaked that album against the label's permission in late 2013, the delivery has gotten more fluid, the song structures less rigid and the music simply, albeit quietly, better. Now, with their Back to the Woods due out later this month (Sept. 14), Haze lets loose with the third single from that project, "Moonrise Kingdom." Named for the Wes Anderson movie that starred Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and more, Haze tells Noisey that the song is about "the boundary between what occurred and what could have been," in the context of a failed romance. For more from Back to the Woods, check out "Impossible" and "Babe Ruthless."