Consumer Guide: May, 2024

Three (count 'em, three) albums from a universalist, one from a Welsh beatmaker blessed with a silver tongue, the latest from our greatest female pop singer, and jazz's greatest tenor player at 28.

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Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds (Free Dirt/PM Press)

Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia)

The Handcuffs: Burn the Rails (Pravda)

MIKE/Wiki/The Alchemist: Faith Is a Rock (ALC)

Pylon Reenactment Society: Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)

Ren: Sick Boi (The Other Songs)

Req'd: Dressing Wounds by Candlelight (Saustex)

Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)

Todd Snider: Aimless Records Presents: Viva Satellite (Purple Version) (Aimless)

Rosie Tucker: Never Not Never Not Never Not (New Professor '19)

Rosie Tucker: Sucker Supreme (Epitaph '21)

Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now! (Sentimental '24)

Wan Fambul: One Family Many Voices . . . (Catalyst for Peace '11)

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