South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts...

Not close and clancular, but frank and open.

★ LAURYN HILL, SEAN KINGSTON (Monday) Rock’s shaggy dog story is Guns N’ Roses’ endlessly postponed “Chinese Democracy”; in hip-hop-soul, the great postponer is Lauryn Hill, the former Fugee who has not made a proper studio album in nine years.

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