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You’re never quite sure where you’re being led in tune-yards’ fifth album Sketchy, and that’s a large part of the appeal. Simon Barker’s latest release reflects his obsession with barefoot running and En Masse is a celebration of the scope of Ensemble Offspring’s diverse skill set.
The contemporary End SARS protests across Lagos come more than four decades after Fela Kuti’s Zombie album launched its musical uprising against the methods of the Nigerian militia, who responded by raiding his Kalakuta compound, burning down his studio and throwing his 77-year old mother out of a third-story window. They come four decades after Fela married 27 women on the same day, either for misogyny’s sake or to delegitimize the government’s claims that he’d kidnapped his backing band and dancers, depending on which sources you read. A life’s worth of rebellion assembles this k...