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pinksiifu likes to keep us guessing. We first hear his voice on GOT FOOD AT THE CRIB’! VOL​.​1 as a mutter, broadcast from a spiky haze of Garageband distortion. For a moment, it sounds as though he is returning to his noise-punk era, which debuted with the rancorous, epoch-defining album NEGRO in 2020. And while it retains that meandering spirit, GFATC spends its 22 minutes exploring hip-hop’s dustier grooves, sounding similar at times to his early solo work or the 2020 Fly Anakin collaboration Fly Siifu’s. GFATC’s mode and presentation help distinguish it: Dropped without warning on last week, exclusively on Bandcamp, it has the air of a daisy-chained DAT tape reel that somehow found its way into your speakers. Without separated tracks, the beginnings and endings of songs (producers include Siifu’s alias iiye, Tony Seltzer, XVII, MVW, West, and IMDEAD) are left to the listener to determine. On paper, it’s a suite; in practice, it becomes more like a sculpture, where multiple angles ...

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