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