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Sacramento, California’s Whoarei — an enigma doubled by their obscurantist approach to lo-fi hip hop-meets-electronic RnB and fittingly mangled vocal style. Love Spectrum, by some accounts a debut full-length proper to elevate the game set by 2013’s Nothing and 2017’s collection of tunes Vibrations, comes off as a wildly self-assured formal introduction. From the opening spare beat and luscious organ of ‘Tell Me (Heaven Maybe Certain)’, through the early James Blake-recalling ‘I Love You, Cookie’ and the string-adorned title track, we become privy to an artist unafraid of incomprehension.