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Jen Ives & An Escape Into Space

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds by BBC

May 13, 202226:50Music

Splendor & Misery is a sci-fi concept album by experimental rap trio Clipping. Lyrics and soundscapes combine to tell an Afrofuturist story of an escape from oppression into the void of space. Jen Ives prepares to be tra...

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