An effortlessly gifted MC expands his low-key, slice-of-life vision. On some level, lifelong New Yorker Patrick Morales’ introspective, lightly melancholic street rap is just another step in a tradition that goes back to Biggie and Wu-Tang Clan—slices of city life that feel both minute and expansive, a microcosm glimpsed through the fog of metaphor and old soul samples. Take “Park,” a Zen-like celebration of a morning spent sitting in the grass watching ordinary life unfold. On another level, though, Ancient History is something more, a quietly psychedelic album that mixes the dreamlike weightlessness of post-Earl Sweatshirt underground rap (the Alchemist-produced “Ancient History,” the Navy Blue-produced “IHNY”) with the melodic directness of soul and R&B (“Bloom,” “Something New”)—a sound that feels both lived in and subtly hard to classify.