There are so many motifs across the album that are reminiscent of different stages of his career, it's pretty much an amalgamation of all his work as well as an extension/continuation of the world of Kuso

Album Rating: 4.5

yesss

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

thank god that anderson paak track wasn't the standard for this new album.



even in the context of the album it's still kinda ok-ish.

Album Rating: 4.5

that track’s easily one of the best there



also I hear Pattern Grid World on Flamagra too

LA is the god

I'm with u Wolfe, it's all there

Album Rating: 3.5

LA is the god'



This

LA is the best instrumental hip hop album ever made
It's also absolutely primitive compared to his vision from Cosmo forward. Which isnt a knock against LA as much as it is a testament to the apotheosis of his work.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah I agree with that for sure mate I dont think you could argue anything other. Unfortunately absolutely nothing grabs me like his early stuff after 2010/11. Usually a handful of tracks on each recording. I can appreciate where hes at with them but I just dont feel em. Same with the new one but obviously gonna give that a lot more plays as of now.

Yeah, it's a lot. LA is cosmic but it's still easy, undemanding. But ever since he started exploring death I feel like he's started coming across more and more as someone who has been touched with the kind of perceptions that leave the mark of madness if you're lucky enough to return from them. Whatever you want to talk about metaphysically: higher dimensions or powers, death, purgatory, altered states, it's the kind of shit the human mind isn't supposed to be able to handle perceiving or processing let alone expressing. His music has more and more become synonymous with the kind of mania I imagine that would come from a man possessed by - or at least a conduit for - something extradimensional like that. It's certainly not always enjoyable or pleasant but it's also some of the closest media I know to being a sensory translation of these kinds of imperceivable topics. It gives me straight up chills sometimes.

tl;dr the dude is WOKE

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah i get that from him as a person. Especially when he started talking about doing DMT and psychs a lot. I remember him saying his grandma died and the first thing he did was go in a room and hit some dmt. (Maybe not the literal first thing, obviously) but from around then he seemed to explore that type of shit more. Existential shit not so much drugs i mean. Kinda post cosmagramma. This record gave me those kind of vibes more so, 'the mania' , but i havent connected with that energy from him within myself which is strange for a musician who was massively influential to me and hasnt dropped off at all. And obviously moved forward but aye...feels are feels innit

Album Rating: 4.5

that was perfect potsy holy shit



I connected with Flamagra immediately so far. I love how dense, gripping, subtle, and cosmic as fuck it is and how it’s just as varied in its vibrant expressions like each album of his does.

Album Rating: 3.5

Sometimes I’m in awe of how Potsy dissects/interprets music, he really thinks about the artist’s development from both a human perspective, and their progression sonically/thematically, often tying it all together.



I feel humbled when 99/100 people don’t go into anywhere near this level of depth, myself included.

It's a nice enough dissection, and I'm glad that people are enjoying the album more than me, but no amount of hyperbole or shedding of context could lead me to the conclusion that the album is anything more than slightly above average. I personally don't think it's even a tenth as poignant or spiritual as Pots. To me, it sounds like aimless electro funk stuff. It's like an amalgamation of all his past efforts but without any meat on its bones. The most processed and hollow sounds he's ever made, so little connective tissue to give it a sense of flow, so few hooks or memorable moments in the shorter tracks.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

well i think it's pretty neat.

Would you say it's neato burrito?

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

nah, just neat.



i ain't seeing this big spiritual voyage, either. But i do enjoy a good amount of moments here and the production is tite and with a purpose, just the way i like it.



Non of that "loosely-structured-songs-that-kinda-just-end-oh-and-3-unfinished-demos-DO-make-1-song" neo-soul BULLSHIT everyone keeps jerking off to.

Album Rating: 4.1

yeah just 7-8 songs that sound like basic instrumental reference tracks for a FlyLo imitator instead

those are so tedious my god

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

i ain't saying it's the 2nd coming of christ or anything, it's not up to par with his best, i can agree to that.



But production is ace, dude definitely still got it. Dude still getting back to the ropes after going into film-making, i take this as somewhat of a warm-up run.