Six years ago, the musician’s Mexico City performances were canceled due to COVID. Before he steps away from his stage piano for good, he’s making up for it with two final concerts.
Paste Pick: The adventurism and intellect that have made Kelela’s music so exciting and unpredictable up to this point remain, but here they’re complemented by a new sense of lightness and self-assurance.
Blame the Clown and Florida Water Blues are full of no-bullshit, tight-as-a-tick songs packed with hooks and furious yawps. The complicated part is figuring out the tarot-speaking, dream-stealing mystics who made them.