R.I.P. marries the familiarity of techno with the abstraction of minimalist and ambient, marring none of the genres and coalescing into something of a transcendental dance record.
Santigold’s Master of My Make-Believe is a call to action that is vaguely contextual just as pop as a genre is vaguely genre-specific – call it protest pop.
Dawn Richard’s almost conceptual Armor On EP might not be the most original of ideas, but on a pop record it’s a novelty that we’d like to see more of.