Music: Shabazz Palaces at the Echo

MUSIC

Three years ago, Ishmael Butler of Digable Planets reemerged as Palaceer Lazaro, enigmatic frontman for Seattle’s Shabazz Palaces, a Sub Pop-signed duo dedicated to deconstruction and dismantling “all that dying and dust.” If Digable Planets felt like a primordial daydream, the Palaces approach genre like Eric Dolphy or Albert Ayler did — free associative, raw and radical. Following a pair of brilliant EPs, Shabazz attacks with “Black Up.” Think Def Jux Records’ sound meets dubstep with African hand drums, skittering xylophones and enough bass to suffocate the asthmatic. Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd., L.A. 8 p.m. Thurs. $20. https://www.theecho.com