The rapper’s brash new rock album is a reflection and rebuttal to American instability, deploying rebellious music for historically grounded critiques of racism, war, and complicity.

After records sampling church bells and gay porn films, the field recordist and ambient musician turns his attention to black metal’s atmospheric interstitials, weaving them into epic, ominous drones.

The New York producer’s debut album is rooted in classic dub techno, but he succeeds in putting his own stamp on the oft-imitated genre, pointing it in new directions.

On its latest album, the prolific Welsh duo takes a warped view of human anatomy in a set of twee-pop and post-punk songs free of innuendo and laced with feral enthusiasm.