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Onwards!

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If you crossed Frank Ocean with L’Rain, you wouldn’t exactly get Khari Lucas, the person behind Contour, but you’d be close. Lucas and his SP-404 are a one man processing center, channeling decades of Black American music and free-minded poets into a post-pandemic fire. Lucas’s gentle and anti-virtuosic singing brings him closer into sync with a band like Sault, or some of SZA’s more chaotic moments.

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