#3261 Swamp Dogg - Love, Loss and Auto-Tune

There's something about the way autotune fractures that lends vulnerability, that reads as paradoxically human. Goddamn, does it work here, against all odds does it somehow sound perfectly natural alongside analog soul rumble and swirly electronic nonsense, blistering and splitting the pain in Swamp Dogg's delivery. This smells, on paper, by all accounts, like a cheap, desperate grasp at relevance, but dammit they pull it off, trashing the boundaries between legitimate and pop, ending up with one of the most unexpectedly great albums of the year 4.5/5