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A Tropical Entropy

Andrew Ryce

created: June 27, 2025, 4:02 a.m. | updated: Nov. 10, 2025, 10:49 a.m.

That desire bubbles to the surface on A Tropical Entropy, an album that sounds uncomfortable with León’s own dance music history, jumping from genre to genre as if he couldn't bear to sit still for more than a minute. Rippling drum patterns appear suddenly like inclement weather before turning a song inside out and leaving just as quickly. It’s a more personal spin of the styles he's most closely associated with, turning the swing of dancehall and dembow into paranoid, palpitating heartbeats. In a 2024 interview, León discussed being tired of touring and nightclubs and explained that he was “anti-drums” when he began working on A Tropical Entropy. The moods continue to swing with “Hexxxus,” a club-ready, dancehall-ish track that starts out irritable and twitchy, yet ends up somewhere close to sexy.

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