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Destroy Lonely’s *ᐸ/3³* arrived with little fanfare. The rapper and singer debuted the album just days after announcing its arrival, and it was released just over a year after its predecessor, 2024’s *LOVE LASTS FOREVER*. This no-frills approach matches the era in which Destroy Lonely’s Broken Hearts series was established. *ᐸ/3³* marks the third release in his celebrated mixtape collection, following the first two (titled *ᐸ/3* and *ᐸ/3²*) in 2020. To keep in theme with the earlier drops, the MC reunited with some of his earliest collaborators, like Bugz Ronin, Cxdy, and Cade. Though he’s working with some of the artists he relied on during his formative years, *ᐸ/3³* also advances some of the styles he’s been flirting with on recent releases. “show u how” reimagines industrial music as a technicolor fever dream, while “kansas” unfurls as a distorted, delirious waltz.