Yeah, Earl Sweatshirt is rapping his ass off again. On this album, he avoids any stagnancy by digging deeper into feelings that are both uncomfortable and life-affirming. Live Laugh Love—the title seems to slightly troll the inspirational slogan you might find framed in a T.J. Maxx—sounds straight out of a half-remembered dream. Barely over 24 minutes, it’s a flurry of conversation scraps, inside jokes, hoops references, repurposed song lyrics, childhood memories, and moments of self-discovery that seems to put just as much into how the words sound as what the words mean. “Jiggy bricklayer like J Hov breaker breaker they can’t close,” he raps from the gut on the intro “gsw vs sac.” The density is overwhelming, and yet he makes it sound so effortlessly cool and easy to listen to.