But I wanna show growth.” That gesture is admirable, and Durk’s introspection helmed 2022’s pensive, triumphant “Grow Up/Keep It on Speaker,” one of his fiercest tracks. In contrast, Deep Thoughts ‘ ...

Where he once leveraged the forward thrust of trance to nudge his songs into gear, Barker now allows them to gradually assume their own shapes. Repetition that first scans as monotonous gradually ...