Tune-Yards - sketchy.Tune Yards announces their fifth studio album, sketchy. Tune Yards last release, I can feel you creep into my private life, was a self reflexive question mark at the end of a decade of outspoken, polyphonic indie music. From 2009 to 2018, Tune Yards (both Merrill and her partner and collaborator Nate Brenner) released four critically acclaimed albums, travelled the world relentlessly to play live shows and composed the psychedelic score to Boots

both featured on this compilation

I know that’s an illusion

and one of our consistently most popular records — so popular

Future Brown have strong involvement in the art world

Old enough to have acquired some scars

Wise to their plan

the reality of modern life sits closer to the surface

when Barwick sat down with her vocal looping set-up and began sketching out some ideas for new solo material

despite its radical roots

The fact that they pledge allegiance to a spot on the periphery of our maps bolsters the nomadic quality of their sonic explorations

Champion Jack Dupree Junker Blues 11

was also heavily influential on an American genre in its infancy: rapping