Fueled in part by the visual aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s Sports Illustrated, Leon Michels could have taken the ball and really run with it for 24 Hr Sports. Instead, the title is only a little more indicative of its contents than that of Yeti Season, El Michels Affair‘s non-conceptual preceding album as lone headliner. There’s a marching band intro, two interstitial themes, a song with soccer-referencing lyrics (in Portuguese), and another features a chorus (however blurred) declaring “We want the gold!” In other words, nothing approaches Jock Jams territory or even remotely resembles Chuck Mangione’s “Give It All You Got.” Athletically-uninclined listeners needn’t worry about being bombarded with sports stuff. 24 Hr Sports is largely standard EMA, reconstituting…

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