There will be no quiet… How can there be? Such a thrum of chaotic beat-bursts and mad-stirred digi-drones cascading together… Until any kind of self-deluded sense of quiet, of peace, can come, indeed, Until The Quiet Comes…
Couldn’t we use a bit more quiet? Flying Lotus blooms into subtler shades on his new album (which features Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu, by the way).
There will be all a ruminative racket at his upcoming Detroit show, yes, surgingthrough his signature agit-ambient/jittery-drift, this uneasy-to-breezy / groovy-to-glitch-stabbed atmospheric hip-hop…
Electro-composer Steven Ellison released his fourth album under the Flying Lotus moniker last month, titled Until The Quiet Comes… He’s invariably impressed or confused those attuned to his psycho-swarmed fuzz-firestorm blends of past albums as he’s interloped into, yes, a quieter-aesthetic, perhaps hemming in some of the spilling sirens and unwieldy bass booms into a more cohesive musical narrative.
Make of Lotus’ latest what you will, listener. (Here’s one take that streams an MP3 -“Puddy Boy Strut” and then another take-….)
In any case, it’s likely safe-to-say that his set at the Majestic this coming Monday evening (with fellow Brainfeeder operative Teebs and Jeremiah Jae) will include clattered-cuts from his splendid 2010 LP Cosmogramma.
In the meantime, consider:
More info from Warp
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2012.
