Marco Polo’s sophomore album, PA2: The Director’s Cut, sees the Brooklyn-via-Toronto producer both establishing himself as the Grand Master of contemporary boom-bap and branching out into new realms of hip hop beat-craft. The album is the culmination of thousands of hours of creative energy, manpower, crate-digging, knob-twisting, Newport cigarrette-smoking and coffee-bingeing, all creating an impeccable infrastructure of music.