Summer Album Overview 2020: Shades of Black pt. 2

Another overview as summer 2020 draws to a close, including:

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (1971)

Heroes are Gang Leaders – The Amiri Baraki Sessions (2019)

Moses Sumney – Græ (2020)

The Koreatown Oddity – Little Dominique’s Nosebleed (2020)

MonoNeon – Living The Best Life And The Worst Life At The Same Damn Time (2019)

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On? (1971)

Previous post in the Shades of Black series

Link to Robert Johnson post

And below is the ever-growing 2020 Radio playlist

Summer Album Overview 2020: Shades of Black pt.1

Overview of my mid-year music stimulus package, including:

Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (2020)

Damon Locks and the Black Monument Ensemble – Where Future Unfolds (2019)

Moor Mother – Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes (2019)

Afrikan Sciences – Centered (2019)

Shon Dervis – 16 (2018)

The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py (1970)

Relevant Links:

Review of Hama’s Houmeissa

The ever-growing 2020 Spotify Playlist

Fishbone's "In Your Face:" Echoes of Desegregation

Review and discussion on Fishbone’s 1986 album In Your Face through the lens of 70s and 80s school desegregation practices.

Relevant Links
Older post on Truth and Soul

Album Overview 2020: A Month In Summer

An overview of recent listening, with albums by

Mother Yeti – My Best Please (2020)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- The Mosaic of Transformation (2020)

Man Man – Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between (2020)

Frank Zappa – You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore v.4 (1988)

Carl Stone – Baroo (2019)

Markus Floats – Third Album (2020)