Fantastic Negrito Is True to His Voice with ‘Please Don’t Be Dead’

The nature of music reviewing is trying to categorize an artist. Comparisons help to give a sense of what an artist sounds like. Conversely, readers are often told that artists “sound like no one else,” which is usually fairly unlikely, unless the artist is performing microtonal bluegrass using a car horn and the cries of a distressed owl. On Please Don’t Be Dead, Fantastic Negrito has a unique sound, not because he sounds like no one else, but because of the way he adeptly fu