The big takeaway from producer-composer-saxophonist-rapper Terrace Martin’s 2026 spurt of mini albums (including PERSPECTIVE, PURPOSE, PEACE and PASSION) is that his creativity can’t be easily confined to a single sound or statement, so why not embrace the fragment, treating projects the way you might treat outfits—good for the day, but easily changed out tomorrow. Where PEACE, for example, showed off his jazzy, occasionally dissonant piano meditations, PERSPECTIVE leans on breezy throwback funk and slow jams, conjuring windows-down freeway rides (the excellent “Charger Chasing”) and fluorescent-lit club floors clouded with dry ice (“Payphone No Sanitizer”—great title) and dripping with sax (“Uncomfortable Pivot”, ditto). LA ’til he dies, he even has a word on fancy grocery stores—he’s just real like that (“Sprouts vs Whole Foods with Erewhon Looking Down”).