A Legend's Technicolor Dub Extravaganza
Plus a Detroit veteran's velour instrumental album, a Ghanaian-American pop star's kaleidoscopic mixtape, a digicore wunderkind's groovy new EP, and an indie rock stalwart's rage against the industry's little boxes
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we review a handful of new records catching our attention. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s happening now. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
Our slate of projects for this week's Five Albums push distinctive sounds—Instrumental boom-bap! Groovy digicore! Dembow-Afropop-baile funk fusion!–to their respective edges. Plus, two of them are Must Hears, so that means you gotta tap in!
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