10 of the Year’s Most Unfairly Overlooked Albums

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland — Black Is Beautiful

The fourth album by the duo formerly known as Hype Williams is just as idiosyncratic and strange as we’ve come to expect from them, encompassing everything from abrasive noise to ominous ambient atmospherics, from strange old Bollywood samples to weird distorted spoken word and brooding hip hop. The result is an album that’s as unpredictable as it is consistently intriguing.