Flying Lotus Cosmogramma (2 Lp's)

Flying Lotus Cosmogramma (2 Lp's)For 26 year old Steve Ellison's deservedly hyped third album, Flying Lotus loosened the reins and set out to make Cosmogramma, which his label, Warp, promoted as a space opera of sorts. More of a long playing, cohesive listen than the prior year's excellent Los Angeles, which felt like a collection of insular, Dilla inspired beats, Flying Lotus evolved into a forerunner of his own personal genre. On this, his most far out release to date, he

Moller dons his Beat Pharmacy cap and pushes the mammoth bassline to near speaker-crushing levels to create a deeply hypnotic groove that is accentuated by waves of ferric pads and fractured percussion

S clubs after the Soldier World Tour

Gil Norton

" At the end of the song Bowie (as Ziggy) whispers

With Afterglow and You Cant Deny

3 Hallelujah (Performed By Rufus Wainwright)

In addition Van Halen takes the Kinks' classic "You Really Got Me" to new heights on its metal version

"I've Got The Groove" (The O'Jays) in his typical reggae-crooner style

sophisticated ideas

but the A$AP Mob's creative leader's death certainly bookends this effort

One of the album's briefest and most beautiful moments

Released: 10/29/21