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As in the tattoo: slowthai’s third LP UGLY
New album: The abrasive but exciting Northampton rapper Tyrone Frampton’s third LP is a powerful, heady concoction, containing this time less grime and politics, more punk and post-punk, rock guitars, and focusing on personal issues, with a paradoxical facial tattooed title acronym meaning U Gotta Love Yourself
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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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FKA twigs
The second part of this year’s LP favourites again includes several superb female artists. Also check out the first part published yesterday
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Stock image? From the cover of Slowthai’s Nothing Great About Britain
This week’s new album roundup has something for everyone – soft, soothing, moving gentle experimental and lo-fi, fierce and soulful hip-hop, African dance music, political reggae and cheesy pop
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