The issue of police brutality has come to the fore again in 2021, with custodial deaths and the arrests of participants at a candlelight vigil being just some of the incidents that have sounded the alarm among human rights watchers.

Tired of constantly hearing press reports to that effect, some young musicians have banded together to release the album Kawtim Compilation Against Brutality and Misconduct.

It houses nine tunes, such as...