UK musician Matt Cutler came out of nowhere last year to release his incredible debut Everything Is Changing Colour. Lone, like many laptop artists, was heavily influenced by Boards of Canada, but his style was more than just a re-hash of the Boards style; it was almost re-invigorating the early Boards sound. On the second half of his debut, Lone's songs drifted more into the hip-hop realm, and he's continued that sound on follow-up Lemurian, a strong contender for album of the year in my mind. While Everything Is Changing Colour was a collection of songs, Lemurian is an album through and through. Cutler takes the influence of Boards of Canada and melds it with his love of instrumental hip-hop pioneers like J Dilla and Madlib. The result is instrumental hip-hop on steroids and probably a game-changer for scope of the instrumental hip-hop sound. About the only frame of reference I can come up with for hip-hop this fresh is Lukid's incredible debut last year, but where Onandon was cold and calculating, Lemurian is free and irreverent. Don't let the coked-out 80s cover fool you; this is a serious step forward.

Style: Instrumental Hip-Hop

RIYL: Lukid, Boards of Canada

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2008  Boards of Canada  Dealmaker  Instrumental Hiphop  J Dilla  Lemurian  Lone  Lukid  Madlib  onecaseman 

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