Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Mdou Moctar can offer an alluring façade

can offer an alluring façade that obscures a deadly trap—one that tightens the more you struggle

You Cool Me Down all coalesce into a wizened

not a techno song

to know him and have him as a friend—he’s a legend

Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Mdou Moctar can offer an alluring façadeWith Best Troubador, Bonnie Prince Billy pays homage to a longtime and forever hero, the late Merle Haggard. A singer who, some 25 years previously, first performed in public by playing a Merle Haggard song, Bonny has often cited Merles work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter magazine in 2009. Best Troubador flips through his song book, landing on pages unmoored from