Billy Woods returns with Golliwog, his first album in two years, following 2023's Maps. While that record was a sharp, introspective travelogue, this one souses into a far darker pool, where fever dreams of horror, satire, and Afropessimism collide, and in whose underwater nooks phantoms lurk in the intertext, and undead figures, possessed dolls, and ghostly cars slip through time. Conveying this dark, weltering sonic backdrop are a crack fleet of producers: The Alchemist, EL-P, Kenny Segal, Conductor Williams, and Preservation. A disorienting, layered triumph, and an abandoned carnival of sound, flickering with life amid deviant-diasporic dances in the dark.