Crooked City is the Providence, Rhode Island duo of Wolfman Jeckyll and Lord Willin', and their second collaborative album arrives with a sharper sense of its own architecture than the first. Wolfman Jeckyll's production operates in a register that sits between late-night atmosphere and crime-film score — smoky drums, deliberate pacing, a palette that keeps everything in shadow. Lord Willin' moves through the material with precision, his lyricism grounded in street-level detail and delivered with the poise of a narrator who knows exactly which scenes to linger on and which to cut. The album functions as a cohesive audio graphic novel, building Providence into a character as much as a setting — crooked deals, contested turf, the cost of choices. Narration and guest contributions fill in the scene without disrupting the film.
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