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♯new ♯2023checklist ♯alternative ♯folk ♯indie ♯indierock ♯durham ♯anjimile ♯artpop 'The King' Anjimile Chithambo is back with a dramatic transformation for their 2nd album -- from a debut 'Giver Taker' (2020), mostly a folky singer-songwriter LP with Sufjan Stevens -like acoustic anthems, 'The King' is grandiloquent departure, with an artful contrasts that few artists short of Björk could pull off. There's a wealth of ♯symphonic reflections (the black experience in America, the ordeals in defining an identity, and understanding sources of alienation) as the bandcamp page succulently notes: “If Giver Taker was an album of prayers, The King is an album of curses." Overall, a brilliant art installation than just an album