Straight Outta Saskatoon
Must Hear road-weary R&B and omnivorous rap experimentalism, a psych-punk supergroup featuring Sonic Youth's secret weapon, and more.
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we discuss 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.
This week, we've got two Must Hear albums: husky, road-weary R&B from the Paris of the Prairies and a mind-melting dispatch from a young duo proving that rap music is still the future. Plus: a scrappy psych-punk supergroup, a marquee Afrobeats team-up, and another revelation from the endless vaults of a certain legendary cello-playing polymath.
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