Consumer Guide Album

Milo: Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?! [Ruby Yacht, 2017]
Just as sound, an opener dominated by James Baldwin expatiating in his pellucid prose about poetry as a holy calling is as gorgeous as anything on a 2017 Kenny Segal production far more experimental musically than its predecessor. Rereading Nabokov, mad that Tim Kaine can't see disaster coming, paging just-deceased actor Bill Nunn on his way to "They were convinced Sufism was expressed by hat choice/Auto-dictate my didact and map it to black noise," and dissing "J.Z. Smith" before capping "The Young Man Has a Point (Nurture)" with "The point is my vocabulary pays my rent," he also stuffs the following into the penultimate "Embroidering Machine": colostrum, medieval weaponry, an Orange County rock band not in my recall memory, a Kurt Vonnegut story not in my recall memory, his ignorance of the details of crack manufacture, and his lifelong mission of raising the psychologically insensate from their stupors as what A Tribe Called Quest called a resurrector. On the other hand, "Note to Mrs" is just a dreamsong to his wife: nothing more, nothing less. A-