Chicago musical polymath NNAMDÏ released his new album BRAT which April 3 on Sooper Records, a masterpiece follow-up to their 2017 DROOL which brought him into the national spotlight, garnering articles on VICE and NPR and landing performances at Pitchfork, Afropunk, and SXSW. “NNAMDÏ came through with the hot sauce.” This first line of the second track on NNAMDÏ’s BRAT does well to describe the sound of this entirely spicy album. Delicious, exciting, novel, and it kicks your ass trying to process all of the dense percussive layering, virtuosic instrumental performance, and lyrical acrobatics. While his last album DROOL cemented a trap and electronica based sound, on BRAT NNAMDÏ ...
