Digable Planets

Digable Planets’ story will likely be filed under “Blown Second Chances” in the annals of music history. The New York hip-hop trio rode the wave of jazz-inflected alt-hip-hop in the early ’90s, scoring a hit single with “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat),” but broke up after its second album, 1994’s distended and weird Blowout Comb. Out of nowhere in 2005, the group announced a reunion, to be followed by a compilation of hits and unreleased material (Beyond The Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles) and its first new album in a decade. That new material still hasn’t arrived this many years later, but the legacy remains open to interpretation.