Consumer Guide Album

Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime [Matador, 2021]
In his U.S. debut, fluent if not quite thrilling Tuareg guitarist puts his ample chops on a well-justified display that, for non-Tamashek speakers, meshes barely if at all with its politically understandable but musically baffling title ("Chismiten," "Layla") ***