Lelowhatsgood’s new EP Rebirth Is Necessary pushes gqom into new sonic and linguistic territory across five tracks of experimental South African club music. Gqom came out of Durban’s townships in the early 2010s, built by young Black men and shaped by everything the genre’s name suggests: dark, confrontational, percussive. Lelowhatsgood, real name Ntsikelelo Meslani, is not breaking with that history on Rebirth Is Necessary. He’s stretching it. …
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