So... One of the best records of the year is getting a reworking. This collector's edition of Damn. takes Kendrick's original treatise on God, Damnation, & Redemption & reverses the path (the tracklist), moving from Kendrick's birth to his death. Shout out to Yoh31 out at DJ Booth who told this when the record dropped, but for some, this reverse tracklisting works even better than the original.

Is "Pompeii" CATE LE BON's apocalypse record? Well, it does feel like things are falling apart a bit, and we may as well find ourselves entombed and calcified in volcanic rock. But title and reality aside, there is more to "Pompeii" than doom and gloom. Rather, LE BON seeks to deconstruct the immediate, instead placing us in a continuum of time that includes both ecstasy and suffering. This comes out not only in the lyrics but in the music as well, which draws influence from the nostalgic genres of new wave, Japanese city pop and 80s electro while still retaining a modern sensibility for composition and arrangement. This is another great release from one of music's current visionaries. On Mexican Summer and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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