Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
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Enotron
May 30th 2010


7695 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Planewreck is too clever for my puny mind to keep up with.



Where's that place in LA where Flying Lotus and a bunch of his peer musicians hold those sort of communal, eclectic shows?

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Pretty interested to hear your thoughts on this more extensively MJ, I just hope you don't go too crazy with the MPP comparisons and let them take over the review.

KritikalMotion
May 31st 2010


2282 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

every copy of this i find has the wrong track times ect

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


When I was looking I got three fake versions before I found the real one. I'd link you but I don't remember where I eventually found it. Just buy it though dude, totally worth it.

Dryden
May 31st 2010


13585 Comments


bought a cd 3 weeks ago. before that didnt buy any music for 4 years prob. it felt strange

KritikalMotion
May 31st 2010


2282 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm totally poor. I don't buy any CDs anymore unfortunately. I guess i'll keep looking.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Me neither, last I bought was... I don't remember actually, might have been Axe to Fall. I found this at 320 kbps somewhere on mediafire, but I only found the link by looking through a thread about FlyLo on a random forum I'd never heard of. I'm sure it's out there though, don't give up album is the balllllllls.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Deserves it. Now that I think about it, my initial 5'ing of this might have been a lil hasty, but it's gotten there anyway for me now. Table Tennis came on last night while I was driving around at like 1 ish and totally blew my mind, regardless of the fact that I'd already heard it 20+ times before. Just one of those perfect listening experiences.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Yeah this was my sixth 5. I even surprised myself with how fast it was. But I mean I know perfect when I hear it.


Edit: Also Deviant, those links were all pretty similar sounds to this, none impressed me more initially but I'll def check out more of that. Particularly Dabrye, that shit was awesome. Still digging FlyLo's wank factor over the others though.

Foxhound
May 31st 2010


4573 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

A little on the lighter side and not really my preference with this type of music. Still good, listening to it now.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


On it. But this just has so much more going on than any of those videos or the few others I looked at.

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
May 31st 2010


32288 Comments


I think that's my biggest problem with this album, at times he piles too much on at once

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Well that would explain the differences in taste/rating we have. I think you mentioned before that he doesn't give his parts time to breathe or sink in, and I sort of agree, but I love that it always seems to be building up to a bigger moment. The fact that there are very few actual climaxes doesn't bother me.

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
May 31st 2010


32288 Comments


I see where you're coming from. Just for me Los Angeles will always be the better album because I think he spends more time teasing and drawing out different moods and little nuances. At times I find it rushed here; I think that's just his glitch itch overriding

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Yeah, I guess I just love that it never sits still for more than like a minute.

Cosmogramma is becoming rather than being.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


I think he does a masterful job at teasing out moods here, everything feels really descriptive and almost gives this a visual element for me. It's true that the "images" he produces change rapidly though, so at the end of the album I'm left with a whole bunch of singular images or defining moments, rather than a cohesive whole. But it still feels like one album to me, and it manages to flow from front to back seamlessly despite being pretty unfocused.

I really can't explain what I mean, but I hope you get what I'm trying to say.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Also, I've listened to LA maybe four times now, and I def like that album a lot too, but I tend to zone out when I listen to it and it doesn't command my attention like this does.

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Yeah definitely still some sick shit on there. Only certain parts zone me out, overall I'm thinkin' it's still a 4.

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
May 31st 2010


32288 Comments


This album has my fav flylo track

sniper
May 31st 2010


19075 Comments


Astral Plane?



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