Janelle Monae is a sponge and a mirror. Her voice dances easily in any genre. Her songs are deliciously poppy and stylistically vibrant; they fit on Pitchfork, in ATL clubs and SF house parties. ArchAndroid (the name of her new album) seems to follow the sci-fi obsessions of Sun Ra, George Clinton and Lil Wayne ("I am an alien"), but defines her music perfectly. It is sly, humanistic contrivance, acting to automatically reproduce and reconfigure the current sounds of popular culture. On the surface, Janelle Monae is a prodigious talent in the vein of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu; underneath she is a walking mix of all that what we listen to.
**Update** While on tour with Erykah Badu, Monae will hop a plane from Memphis to Denver to join MGMT and Tame Impala for one night at Red Rocks.
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