It's not hard to see why the De La boys might feel a kinship with their guest: as Zev Love X, Doom had been one third of KMD, whose skit-centric, playful debut, Mr Hood, preceded an altogether darker encore: 1993's Black Bastards, shelved by Elektra because of Doom's provocative cover illustration of the group's ironic "sambo" mascot hanging from a noose.
Francisco's playful debut album, Music Business, updates the frisky Italo-disco style of the 80s, mixing it with flexi-techno and smacky synths.
It is this gifted storytelling that would presage Bechdel's autobiographical epic "Fun Home". Other notable comics worth dwelling over range from Marge Henderson Buell's playful "Little Lulu," which debuted in 1935 in the Saturday Evening Post, to the sociopolitical "Where I'm Coming From" strip by Barbara Brandon-Croft, who in 1991 became the first nationally syndicated black female cartoonist.
And while they are far from the boys that rocked the hip-hop scene so spectacularly, they've retained the playful, rebellious spirit that marked their debut.
It includes tracks "Peeping Tomboy" and "Glass of Shattered Youth", described as "a playful companion to their Guitar Method debut full-length".
The stylish, narratively light, obscurely playful depiction of two lesbian entomologists debuted with a so-so £43,200 from 23 cinemas.
Django Django's self-titled debut album shares a similar playful feel to that of Cambridge-based group Alt-J.
That came through in his debut collection on Wednesday, with playful cashmere sweaters with chunky braiding, draped dresses in pale blue and taupe jersey, and simple rose and pebble prints.
Undulating vamps, the glassy tinkle of electric piano and playful phantom choruses surround Amel Larrieux on her debut album.
Austin-based theater group Rude Mechs makes its Cal Performances debut with Stop Hitting Yourself, a playful meditation on modern decadence and human nature (Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 19-21, 8 p.m., Zellerbach Playhouse).
Their debut album, Man Alive, was in parts playful and poppy yet, like a hyperactive child, you often wanted to lock them in their room for a few hours until they had learned to speak calmly and clearly.
