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Sampa The Great’s second album reaches different heights
New album: A swaggeringly stylish, sharp, soulful, funny, proclamatory new release by rapper and singer Sampa Tembo celebrating her return to her native Zambia, with rebuffs to her previous home Australia and its music industry, and nods to Zamrock, lyrics in the Bantu language, and multiple African and other collaborators
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Denzel Curry’s fifth album Melt My Eyez See Your Future
New album: This fifth LP by the fluid rapper from Florida harks back to an older, more mellow period of hip hop - smoother, jazzier, and subtler, with his gruff RZA-style voice making clever rhymes with an outstanding guest list, from Robert Glasper to Saul Williams
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The Strokes
Strong new LPs from The Strokes and Laura Marling reflect signs of the times, while eclectic records from Jackie Lynn and Pokey LaFarge, and excellent postpunk from Flat Worms and Irma Vep are also among this week’s 10 picks
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