a blight, most foul Vinyl

A BLIGHT, MOST FOUL is barber beats gone to seed — Hozokauh drags the genre's velvet smoothness into a candlelit crypt and lets it rot beautifully. Across twelve tracks of obsequious loops, doomed oblations and a primogen's slow duty, the record plays like a funeral procession you can nod your head to.

Gorgeous and grim in equal measure, it treats decay as something almost holy. Slip it on when the night gets long and the torch burns short — temporary death, eternal groove.