For those who don't know, Flying Lotus is an instrumental Hip-Hip producer from LA who just dropped his second album entitled 'Los Angeles'.
My impression is that those on Metacritic who have listened to this album don't think much of it, and I can't say I found much exciting about it when I first listened to it. Nonetheless, it has been getting rave reviews - most notably from The Wire, Popmatters, AMG and Audiversity. The review on Audiversity is most interesting. Stating...
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the more I played it, the more I came around. Here's the best part about this album: You likely won't like it on your first listen. Or your second. Probably not even your third. You'll only find a handful of songs you can actually remember on the first go-around, maybe "RobertaFlack (feat. Dolly)" or maybe "Golden Diva." But each successive replay merits a new song you're rediscovering for the first time, until eventually you realize you love all 17 just as you swore you didn't have the capacity to because your iPod is too clogged up with the new Wolf Parade or Fleet Foxes or some damn thing.
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Los Angeles is the future, but it's also the past, the present, the solid, the liquid, gas, plasma, atoms and quarks, particles and participles, broken and bent and sent through wormholes to our ears. It's a culmination of everything we know, everything we've ever learned about hip-hop, about funk, about soul. Real soul. It's a reason to keep loving music. Not bad for a mere mortal, anyway.
So is Los Angeles one of those albums you have to listen to a dozen times before you enjoy it? What did people think of it?
So is Los Angeles one of those albums you have to listen to a dozen times before you enjoy it? What did people think of it?
I didnt heard the entire record but it sounds pretty decent. "Code of ethNics" is my favorite, and it took me 1 listen to like it. But that song is not on his new record, sadly.
