JOHNNY MANCHILD AND THE POOR BASTARDS – WE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS ROOM

This has been the year for long albums: Adjy, TWIABP, Scarypoolparty, and Kanye have all released LPs of incredible magnitude. Not to be outdone, Oklahoma City’s Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards have dropped their own 14-track album clocking in at just over an hour long. But Manchild and crew trade 20-minute songs in for a diverse cast of influences and instruments (horns and salsa influence, anybody?) in a way that certainly sets them apart from all aforementioned acts (not necessarily in a better or worse way, I should add).

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