The Roots, Rising Down (2008)
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Anything by The Roots is worth hearing, almost all of it is worth having – but I have a particular fondness for the dark trilogy of records released by the band between 2004-2008, one every two years, a continued stripping back of their sound, to form a brutal funk that continues to inform their sound to this day, that liber…
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