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4AD The new Tune-Yards record conceptually asks a lot of its listeners and does it right up front: should the purpose of music be to entertain or to instruct? Of course, many albums try to do both, but few so transparently as sketchy. It begins with a cacophony of noise meant to scare the audience and lines about screaming babies and the nasty rip of human flesh while a female voice proclaims, “people want to hear you sing”. The song itself, “Nowhere, Man” obliquely addresses the fact that men control the conversation and have the power when it comes to abortion rights. Using baby boomer rock references (The Beatles, “Nowhere Man”, Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman”, Martha and the Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run”), Tune-Yards suggest the limits of liberal best intentions. More importantly, the duo capture the anger at being forced to shut up (and sing) and not have agency over one’s life. The implicit question is, are we having fun yet?

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