is Oakland rapper Ian Kelly’s sophomore album and it shines. Ironically, sunning in the aura of your authentic self often requires a symbolic death. They asked questions instead of speaking in absolutes, and nudged us towards empathy, understanding, catharsis and even joy. We saw lyricists and instrumentalists reaching new heights of their powers, in terms of both craft and concept. When KQED Arts & Culture looked back on the year in Bay Area music, we saw that the most compelling albums helped us contemplate our relationships to ourselves and our communities. Yet the pandemic has forced us to constantly calculate risk and make adjustments to how we move about the world, and the best music of the year helped us navigate this time of buffering. In a weird, in-between year, many of us were grateful to gather again in homes, concert halls and dive bars for some much-needed spiritual sustenance.
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