Creating the first Tears for Fears album of new material in 17 years didn’t initially go too well. The duo went into the studio with an array of songwriters to try and tease out a modern hit single.

2011’s most un-hyped rap release has arrived. It’s by a group so under-the-radar that even its record label, All City, or the photographer who shot the mysterious image on its album’s cover, Sue Kwon, ...