Consumer Guide: December, 2025

Detailed and complicated songs of marital strife, super rhyming over a panoply of speedy beats, an A+ Thelonius Monk compilation, and an ancient Ugandan instrument provides brand new kicks.

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Lily Allen: West End Girl (BMG)

Luke Bell: The King Is Back (Thirty Tigers)

Danny Brown: Stardust (Warp)

Close Readers: Trees of Lower Hutt (Austin)

Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan)

Hamell on Trial: Dirty Xmas (Saustex)

Moby Grape: AKA (self released)

Thelonious Monk: Standards (Columbia, 1989)

Nakibembe Embaire Group: Nakibembe Embaire Group (Nyege Nyege Tapes, '23)

Nakibembe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida: Phantom Keys (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Smerz: Big City Life (Escho)

Sudan Archives: The BPM (Stones Throw)

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