Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader, "Flying Lotus, for me, is like the Hendrix of his generation" it seemed more than an audacious opinion, and with the arrival of Cosmogramma, it's revealed as a revelation. In the past couple of years, Flying Lotus has grown into the position of being far more than a producer, he has helped materialize a far-reaching strain of musical ideology that has encompassed not only a global family of like-minded artists, but also a nearly infinite palate of planetary (and interplanetary) sonics. Looking back, his full-length Warp debut, Los Angeles, appears to be much more of a mission statement than a simple introduction - laying the foundation for a field on which an entire generation of artists would soon be playing. While that album was an introspective, moody travelogue through the Californian metropolis, it certainly hinted at Flying Lotus' inclination to expand his sound beyond terrestrial means. As you may deduce from the title of his latest opus, he's done just that. Not only has an entirely new range of sounds been unlocked by our intrepid astral traveler, but every genre touchstone associated with his name has been merged into a self-described "space opera."

 

1. Clock Catcher

2. Pickled!

3. Nose Art

4. Intro//A Cosmic Drama

5. Zodiac Shit

6. Computer Face//Pure Being

7. ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke

8. Arkestry

9. Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat

10. Do The Astral Plane

11. Satelllliiiiiteee

12. German Haircut

13. Recoiled

14. Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph

15. Drips//Auntie's Harp

16. Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington

17. Galaxy In Janaki

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