Debbie’s Son is Maxo’s second full-length of 2023, following February’s Even God Has a Sense of Humor. The Southern California rapper led the album with “PlayDis!,” a collaboration with Detroit’s Zelooperz—the sole guest vocalist on the record. While his prior LP was released on Def Jam, Maxo issued Debbie’s Son on his own Smileforme label. The 10-song album coasts on minimal, moody beats produced by the Alchemist, Beat Butcha, Lastnamedavid, Alexander Spit, Ahwlee, and others. Maxo shared his major-label debut, Lil Big Man, back in 2019.
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MJ Nebreda: Arepa Mixtape [Empire]
MJ Nebreda is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-based artist, producer, and DJ. Her latest project, Arepa Mixtape, draws inspiration from reggaeton, dembow, and raptor house—an electronic genre hailing from Caracas. The 10-song mixtape includes recent singles “Arepa,” “Subliminal,” and “Rápido.”
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Modern Nature: No Fixed Point in Space [Bella Union]
Jack Cooper, formerly of Ultimate Painting and Mazes, is back with his latest album under the name Modern Nature. For No Fixed Point in Space, Cooper handed musical notation to the players and instructed them to loosely interpret and improvise within that structure. Cooper said he wanted to find the “swing of humans” inside music instead of sterile grids: “I think the most important aspect of that idea is collectivism; the rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, all the aspects of music are not the responsibility of one instrument, they are the responsibilities of all the instruments.”
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