
I’ve been stressing for weeks about how best to review this record, about how to translate its magic into sentences which even approach doing it justice. Ultimately, I’m just going to have to resign myself to the fact that no amount of drinking, thinking, redrafting or plagiarism is going to allow my review to faithfully articulate the enveloping presence of Merril Garbus (better known as tUnE-yArDs ) on her second album WHOKILL . In the face of her music, my prose style is doomed to find itself lagging miles behind her ambition, her talent, her expression. [...]