Brooks, 91, has made a career of poking fun at topics that normally wouldn't make you laugh. "The comedy writer is like the conscience of the king," Brooks says. "He's got to tell him the truth."
With an en vogue unaffected croon, the DJ and producer best known for his work with Jordan Rakei and Kaytranada in the London electronic scene steps in front of the mic for his debut album, Geography.
On knock knock, DJ Koze is more accessible than ever, without losing his essential strangeness. Róisín Murphy, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner and José González guest.
The self-described "tenderpunk" project of L.A. producer-engineer Sarah Tudzin reckons with the simultaneous blessing and curse of "fortitude and weakness both in spades."