This month's release roundup includes White Lung's witchy two-minute mantras, Monarch's crawling tectonic doom, and Sir Michael Rocks’s bleakly sunny party rap.
by Leor Galil, Peter Margasak, Monica Kendrick, Kevin Warwick, Luca Cimarusti, Bill Meyer, Kim Kelly and Erin Osmon
Ab-Soul, These Days . . . (Top Dawg Entertainment) Backed by a squealing jazz saxophone, Herbert Anthony "Ab-Soul" Stevens throws out a quick line on "Kendrick Lamar's Interlude" about his most famous labelmate and fellow Black Hippy crew member: "If I ain't better than Kendrick, then no one is then."…[ Read more ]