Consumer Guide: October, 2024

Guitar rock verging on the philosophical, boom-bap from an alt-rapper here to stay like that shit in your panties, a titanic work of art from 1956, & East African dance records from a DJ on a mission.

Bad Moves: Wearing Out the Refrain (Don Giovanni) Already around for almost a decade, this very mixed D.C.-based female-male pop-rock g-g-b-d quartet’s fourth album is easily their most finished—devoting an entire line to the single six-syllable word “unambiguously” bespeaks discipline, brains, and a sense of humor. Indeed, many of these songs verge on the philosophical, and if you think I’m jiving, how about