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Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine is reportedly Brockhampton s penultimate album, with the final album due for release sometime later this year. The past few years have been complicated for the group after Ameer Vann s ignominious dismissal. Despite the challenges,
Roadrunner is a concise and focused musical statement that explores nearly every corner of what hip-hop has become in recent decades.
The production is made memorable by its innovative use of instrumentation. Decorations of jazzy saxophones, sexy synths, and warm piano are strewn throughout the project with every song giving the listener a completely different experience. The track Dear Lord, in particular, departs from the aggressive rap preceding it, giving the listener a jolt of hymn-like choral singing to console a grieving Joba reeling from his father s suicide.