SATURATION II by Brockhampton

Saturation II, the second studio album from Brockhampton, landed on August 25, 2017, the middle panel of a trilogy the self-declared boy band blasted out within six months. The crew had come together partly through online forums, started out in San Marcos, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles, and here the whole collective sounds like it's elbowing for the mic at once.

Romil Hemnani handles most of the production, with help from Q3 (Jabari Manwa and Kiko Merley), Bearface, Kevin Abstract and Joba, and the beats swerve from glossy to jagged without warning. Abstract, Matt Champion, Merlyn Wood and Dom McLennon bring wildly different voices, with founding member Ameer Vann still in the fold, and that was the point: a boy band reinvented as a big, diverse hip-hop gang with no single face. "Sweet" is the cut that caught on with countdown listeners.

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