Rhye BLOOD (2018)

I'd been looking forward to this practically all 2017.  They released maybe a single per month and each fit snugly but uniquely into their fractalized-Sade aesthetic. In some realms, these are lesser times--there's no record label money for a house band of hot session guys, there's no album sales for Rhye to get points and go rogue.  Minimalism is less a choice than necessity.  And they turn that interiority into a strength, like the poetry of Carl Philips, no one can limit your access to self-excavation and myths are open source.