On his new album Vapor City, Travis Stewart stirs rhythmic tics from drum & bass and footwork into intensely humid and immersive urban collages. He speaks to Rory Gibb about throwing out the blueprints and the enduring appeal of jungle
In Frank Ocean's long (long) awaited third album, Tara Joshi finds the artist asking questions about the positive and negative effects of the immediacy of our age and is left with her own about expectation and lasting change in the face of its subversion
Is the success of XXXtentacion in spite of troubling abuse allegations a damning insight into misogyny in music? Tara Joshi considers the 'norms' of a macho hip hop culture, plus reviews of the past two months of releases