William Emmons / Daily Nexus
“Dissect” is what music nerds think they sound like when they talk about their favorite albums. This is how I’d describe Cole Cuchna’s serialized music podcast, which takes one album per season and, quite literally, dissects it track by track, lyric by lyric.
The show has four seasons so far: seasons one and two, respectively, are Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy; season three dives into Frank Ocean’s early career and analysis of his second album Blonde; and season four, dubbed a mini-series, explores Ms. Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill upon its 20th anniversary. The common threads between these albums are obvious: modern classics by enigmatic black artists that are not commonly analyzed through an academic lens. It’s quite amazing listening to the way that Cuchna pays attention to detail with the heart of a fan and the ear of a scholar.
It’s clear that…
