FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA
Blue Orchids ★★★★
Angus Tempus Memoir TINY GLOBAL. CD/DL/LP
Since 2016, ex-Fall man Martin Bramah has been seized by a late-life creative burst. So it continues on this stirring, time-slipping concept piece, where often effusive garage psych betrays protest, occult philosophies and daring, with echoes of his storied past.
IH
The Koreatown Oddity ★★★★
Isthisforreal? STONES THROW. DL/LP
Based on the conceit the LA producer is really “an English nigga”, TKO raps over vignettes with sonic left turns. His style sneaks in social comment via the back door on History Tension and Endless Run.
AC
Butcher Brown ★★★★
Presents Triple Trey CONCORD. CD/DL/LP
Virginia band’s intuitive line-blurring majors on a psychedelic mash-up of P-funk, jazz and hip-hop. Tennishu’s verbal flurries star on a party-aimed big band chop-up, epitomised by a crunchy re-work of Notorious B.I.G.’s Unbelievable.