Some weeks, the new-release calendar tops out at "pretty good," and this is one of those weeks. I really don't understand how shit like this happens. Last week, we got new albums from Tame Impala and Future and Wilco and Jason Isbell, and other than Wilco's Star Wars (which is exciting simply by virtue of being a free-download album from a heritage band), all of them absolutely rule. (Plenty of people think Star Wars rules, too, and I respect that opinion even if the album sounds a bit brittle and half-formed to me.) And that's been happening again and again lately: The release weeks so stuffed with greatness that I feel like I'm betraying three great artists just by picking one album over the others. On the flipside, we have weeks like this one, which admittedly haven't happened very often this year. I've tried to get excited over a whole bunch of different albums this week, and I just haven't been able to work myself up. I seriously considered picking "Jidenna's 'Classic Man' 12 times in a row" as this week's Album Of The Week, since I'd really honestly rather hear that than anything else right now. But that would open up a big and weird can of worms. So, instead, let's talk about this Mas Ysa album. It's pretty good!