Innocent Country 2

Quelle Chris and Chris Keys have proven to be crucial collaborators over the course of the 2010s. On 2015's Innocent Country, their first full album together, Keys' nostalgic, abstract beats fit Quelle's playful and profound reflections like a glove, and Keys helmed some of the highlights of Quelle's subsequent, more ambitious solo efforts, particularly "Obamacare" from 2019's Guns. Coming after that astounding release as well as Quelle's Everything's Fine, his acclaimed 2018 joint venture with wife Jean Grae, Innocent Country 2 sounds mellower and more casual in some ways, yet it's roughly twice as long as the original Innocent Country, and both its extensive guest list and audio fidelity are more in line with Quelle's later albums. Keys' productions are generally clean and polished, filled with jazzy pianos and warm rhythms rather than the more disjointed sample-choppery of before. Quelle's rhymes focus on maintaining sanity and happiness throughout all of life's obstacles, and while