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Rubblebucket &bull; <i>Sun Machine</i>

Rubblebucket • Sun Machine

Like chocolate-covered potato chips, this mixture of disparate ingredients sounds unlikely but sounds delicious.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra &bull; <i>IC-02 Bogotá</i>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra • IC-02 Bogotá

Different from other UMO offerings, this is an instrumental effort. It features some of that signature swirling sound, but also incorporates droning and Afrobeat elements. Hypnotic and easy to get lost in, which is inevitable and recommended.

Tom Tom Club &bull; <i>The Good The Bad and the Funky</i>

Tom Tom Club • The Good The Bad and the Funky

This is a reissue of a 20-year-old album, yet the pan-global disco stew that comes from this band could live anywhere in their decades-long career continuum, past, present, or future. This is dance music for getting subtly amped up.

Sneaks &bull; <i>Happy Birthday</i>

Sneaks • Happy Birthday

There is something familiar yet quite subversive in the way Sneaks assembles their synthetic layers and stream-of-consciousness vocalizations into a collage of desperate modern living.