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Mykki Blanco, Betty Rubble: The Initiation Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:57 PM PDT Mykki Blanco is a performance artist, a black gay drag queen and a rapper. She is the center of her own Venn diagram, in other words, and on Betty Rubble she went from “promising” to great. Her voice is raspy and manic, a bit of Lil Wayne at his most enthusiastically unhinged and a bit of Young Dro in how audibly she relishes the vowel and consonant sounds leaving her mouth. The beats on Rubble are a collision of electro, snap music and Neptunes, a lot of empty space and room for attitude and personality. Blanco obliges, calling herself “Richie Rich with a clit in the middle” and interpolating “If I Was a Rich Man” on “Angggry Birdz” and telling a hilariously detailed story about a tour-stop conquest on “Vienna.”

Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Selected Studies Vol. 1 Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:54 PM PDT Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a towering figure of Krautrock: He formed Qluster (later renamed Cluster) and Harmonia, and his deceptively simple synth pieces in the late 1970s and early ’80s are a genre unto themselves. Lloyd Cole is better known for literate guitar rock than synth drones, but here the two find a serene common ground, creating an airy, spacious album full of twinkling, twirling little mobiles. The music seems to move forward and backward at once: Roedelius’s genius was in creating gently hypnotic pieces out of minimal materials, and Selected Studies, belying its forbiddingly dry name, sparkles.