New Release Tuesday

Today's new release suggestion is a no brainer. There's only one album to get today and it has the makings of being Album of the Year. It's The Roots' undun. This is the Roots' 13th album (13 albums from a hip-hop group, that's unheard of!) and it's sure to be as brilliant as their previous work.

Undun tells the story of Redford Stephens' downfall in reverse order. Stephens is a fictional character created to center the narrative of undun around, and this disc serves as the Roots first concept album.

Hiphopdx has already give the album the 5-star treatment and others are praising it all over the Net. The Roots, being super fan friendly, released a free stream of the album on NPR's website last week so many got a taste before the album even dropped, building the anticipation for the actual release even more. I have to say it's going to be damn hard for me to do this, but I've got the album on my Christmas list so I'm holding off until the 25th. I just can't be spending money on myself at this time of the year. Luckily I got mixtapes from B.o.B. and Lupe, as well as Statik Selektah & Action Bronson's Well Done to hold me over for the next three weeks!

For those of you who don't want to wait to get your hands on this disc, enjoy it and I'll be joining you in your admiration of the album in a few short weeks.