Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmasteredKendrick Lamar has released a surprise eight track album, Untitled Unmastered, comprising outtakes from the Grammy winning To Pimp A Butterfly. Filled with jazz solos and politically charged lyrics, it appers to be a companion piece to Butterfly, rather than a standalone record. All of the tracks are untitled, save for the date they were recorded.

Just a miniature size

the collection celebrates the timeless delights of a well-crafted pop song

instead of basic salsa

relocated to Europe from their Toronto base with the ambition to plug into a continent that felt more cohesive in terms of a gig circuit and to map new spaces

topped the charts nearly two years after it was recorded

but predictably none troubled the Top 30 pop charts

lent it to Newell for two days

Since they released their debut EP ‘creeping speedwells’ last year to widespread critical acclaim

Is Less Sketched Out

just working on that thing called life

We throw ourselves out of our own garden

or aesthetically significant