Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Mdou Moctar You Cool Me Down all

You Cool Me Down all coalesce into a wizened

not a techno song

Housed in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork

to know him and have him as a friend—he’s a legend

His 17th studio LP – and first since 2020’s instrumental WINTER IS FOR LOVERS –and the first non-instrumental solo album of new songs since 2016

Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Mdou Moctar You Cool Me Down allWith Best Troubador, Bonnie Prince Billy pays homage to a longtime and forever hero, the late Merle Haggard. A singer who, some 25 years previously, first performed in public by playing a Merle Haggard song, Bonny has often cited Merles work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter magazine in 2009. Best Troubador flips through his song book, landing on pages unmoored from