Flying Lotus follows-up last year's excellent Reset EP with his sophomore album and debut for Warp. FlyLo set the bar high with last year's EP, most notably due to his broken-beat R&B opener "Tea Leaf Dancers", showcasing felxibility and range not previously heard on his debut album 1983. With this album, FlyLo has created an ode to the city he calls home by covering many of the different sounds emanating from the City of Angels, from the excellent R&B track "Roberta Flack", a worthy sequel to the greatness of "Tea Leaf Dancers" to the tribal drums of "Melt!" to more uptempo tracks like "Comet Course" reminding me of GB at his best. The album may come off as a bit scatterbrained, and it is, and because of that it only partially meets the pre-release hype. But this album still etsablishes Flying Lotus as one of the premier hip-hop producers of the post-Dilla era, and I can't wait to hear what he comes up with next.

Style: Instrumental Hip-Hop

RIYL: GB, Dr. Who Dat?

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Download: Roberta Flack

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2008  Dr. Who Dat?  Flying Lotus  GB  Instrumental Hiphop  Los Angeles  Warp  onecaseman 

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