Consumer Guide: July, 2023
Sweet melodies buoying up existential weight, trying Jesus when other men let you down, sad and brilliant tales of failed relationships, and jazz with a pop-friendly sense of identity and purpose.
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African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga (On U Sound) This Adrian Sherwood avant-Afrobeat collective exists, which after 40 years is admittedly a more impressive achievement than it used to be, but to exactly what extent it exists has always been a perplex (“Accra Electronica,” “Abalatua”) ***
Buck 65: Super Dope (Handsmade) The Nova Scotian CBC talk sh…