Consumer Guide: June, 2023
Lovestruck avowals, stealth-ethical jokers, Black pop standards, and lovers smart enough to understand how much worse it could be.
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África Negra: Antologia Vol. 1 (Bongo Joe) It would be idiot vanity not to quote the press copy on this one, so ahem: “Heat-seeking, puxa-style blends of semba, merengue, kompas, soukouss, coladeira from the two Portuguese-speaking islands of Sao Tomé & Principe in the Gulf of Guinea.” Goes on to assert its place among “the roots of current Lisbon kudur…