Too often the album glides on reputation when it should be tilting toward idiosyncrasy.
Next month, perennial rap-rookie-of-the-year contender J. Cole will finally drop his major label debut.
A rhymer no less gifted than T.S. Eliot once said that April is the cruelest month.
The Fresh & Onlys’s new album, Play It Strange, provides a trip back to the early 1980s.