"The Grammy-winning ATLien rapper moved to LA, lost his urge to rhyme (at least with words), got heavily into flutes, and found some deep jazz cats in his area to augment his epic, enigmatic jams on the surprise 2023 album, New Blue Sun."
"Every track on New Blue Sun has between two and 10 million streams on $p0t1fy, which is kind of shocking for such an uncommercial record on which the average song length is nearly 11 minutes."
"However, seconds after the band-percussionists Carlos Niño and Deantoni Parks and keyboardist Surya Botofasina -strolled onstage, some asshole shouted 'Erykah Badu'... André appeared not to be fazed by this rudeness."
"Instead, he proceeded to revel in his newfound freedom from hip-hop's routines... André played a beautifully mournful tune on a wooden flute as Botofasina channeled goose-bump-inducing, Lonnie Liston Smith-like keyboard tones."
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