Can you procure hallucinogens by May 5th?
Flying Lotus – Computer Face/Pure Being
Flying Lotus – Dance of the Pseudo Nymph
The premier practitioner of psychedelic hip-hop has an album due out in two months and a week called Cosmogramma – excellent cover art (hmm, looks like a hand-drawn eclipse) and tracklist here – and has kindly leaked a track well in advance. Flying Lotus’s “Computer Face/Pure Being” is funky at odd angles, with his trademark swarm-of-bees-synthesizers and lurching rubber basslines coalescing into a hypnotizing lull, interposed with the casual laser-beam gun sample or screaming-lady sample (likely because she’s been nailed by a laser beam gun). “Dance of the Pseudo Nymph” takes a different route, trading the former’s engorged arrangement for free jazz arpeggios, clattering island percussion, and a haunting, spectral vocal ornamentation. Be on the lookout for Cosmogramma, which, apart from boasting 18 new interstellar hymns (FlyLo’s apparently taken to calling it a “space opera”), also boasts guest appearances from Erykah Badu, a bassist named Thundercat, and a young man named Thom Yorke who’s very concerned about the environment.
In the meantime, you can become acquainted with Flying Lotus in several different Not-Safe-For-Work ways: watch the hilarious semi-animated video for Lotus’s “Parisian Goldfish” (directed by Eric Wareheim of the “comedy” “duo” Tim & Eric); read his thoughts on DMT (a psychedelic for grown-ass men); read about the digitalization of hip-hop (and FlyLo’s medical marijuana fireplace mantel); or – OR – look at this photo and help me identify everybody. I’ve got four so far. One of them is painfully obvious.
