Consumer Guide Album

Mach-Hommy: HBO (Haitian Body Odor) [Griselda, 2016]
From an opener anchored by an irresistible punk-metal drone Bardo Pond found in the trash through spoken wisdom by an M-H associate who sounds like Jay-Z to the relaxed, matter-of-fact "Bloody Penthouse" closer, this Newark Francophone will keep you interested. But the stunner climaxes the title track that serves as this hard-to-find album's fulcrum: a two-minute P.S. in which anti-Duvalier activist Raymond Joseph describes a nationally televised Port-au-Prince ruling-clique gala in which Michèle Bennett Duvalier and her rich-lady cohort showed off the furs they've taken out of a freezer built specially and solely to store them. Puts recent events down there in a perspective I'm not wise enough to elucidate. B+