Often, roots music like the a cappella gospel found on Como Now is approvingly described as raw, when in reality its perfect pitch and apt use of harmony could be more accurately categorized as sophistication that takes risks. The various soloists and ensembles of Mount Mariah Church push their voices to ragged extremes to make plain the joy and danger of a God so present in them only extreme sounds can communicate the essentially incommunicable.
The funk label Daptone deserves credit for capturing a world so outside of music business timelines it blows away our mediated realities.