Earthology

If all the Whitefield Brothers’ projects ever face the risk of all blurring into each other, at least it’s a colorful blur — and you’re 100% guaranteed to get a deep, rare-groove-worthy beat or thirteen out of the whole situation. The first release under the Brothers’ more-or-less-real-named identities since 2002’s In the Raw fits right in with the Now-Again philosophy of deep immersion in some of hip-hop and funk’s more esoteric pan-global sources, clicking tight beneath top-tier indie MCs (Percee P, Edan, Mr. Lif) and fellow funkateers (Quantic, El Michels Affair) for a musical travelogue so mutable and cross-bordered it feels like touring via instantaneous teleportation.