Kelela&#8217;s new album makes genre feel like a failure of language. The closer you get to describing what new avatar is doing, the more inadequate labels become. Not because the music is abstract or unknowable, but because the categories themselves stop making sense. Kelela doesn&#8217;t blur boundaries so much as reveal they were never as…

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