'Better Dreaming' by Tune-Yards

★★★

Though Tune-Yards' sixth album probably won't top any sales charts, "it will definitely make you get up and dance," said in The Line of Best Fit . Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, partners in both music and life, "have always been adventurous and uncompromising, showing an eclecticism that draws from African, folk, electronic, rap, and even classical music." But the result is always a form of pop, easy on the ears even when Garbus is singing, as she does here, about all that's happening in the world that infuriates her. "Full of pulsating beats and hypnotic grooves," this latest album is "bursting with an energy and joy that is impossible to resist."

If there's a complaint to be made here, it's that the music "backgrounds the songs' meanings," sai

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