81355 (pronounced “bless”) is an original hip-hop collaboration between three of the Indianapolis music scene’s most elder statesmen: Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, and David “Moose” Adamson. Having worked together in the past, 81355 (formed in 2021) is the first time the trio has bonded together from conception to execution. The group’s stunning debut album, This Time I’ll Be of Use, is a cross between ghostly Jean-Michel Jarre’s swirling bossa nova steeped hip-hop beats and surrealist word-play delivered with sharp resolve. These three musical vagabonds have brought their individual sounds together to form a sonic and lyrical tapestry rich with vision and style. Simultaneously mystical and stark, dancing between different and better futures, alternative realities, yet never leaving this one, this travel through temporal realities and parallel universes is matched by the syncopation of both vocal and musical delivery that plays with rhythm, rhyme, melody and meter.