Anderson . Paak

Oxnard

Anderson .Paak’s highly anticipated Oxnard is a slow burn. It’s not a bad effort by any stretch, but perhaps the excitement that hovered around its release all these months set the bar distractingly high. Unlike the works that precede it — Venice and Malibu in particular — Oxnard doesn’t wow on the first, third or even fifth listen. But it isn’t short on bright spots either,