Dr Dre: Compton review – velvety production and righteous anger

(Aftermath/Interscope)Reviewers often have an ongoing list of albums in production. These LPs hang around under the heading “forthcoming”, “TBC” or “YR” – “yeah, right”. Here, alongside My Bloody Valentine and D’Angelo, Guns N’ Roses spent the noughties with Dr Dre, as their Chinese Democracy album and Dre’s magnum opus, Detox, lingered indefinitely in that limbo reserved for rich, attention-deficient perfectionists.It is ax