Enter Flamagra - a work that sweeps up every quantum advance and creative leap of the last dozen years of Lotus’ career and takes them even further; the Warp release encompasses hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, global dance music, tribal poly-rhythms, IDM, the L.A. Beat scene, but it soars above a specific vortex whose coordinates can’t be accurately charted. Other than to say that it is a Flying Lotus record, perhaps the definitive one. An astral afro-futurist masterpiece of deep soul, cosmic dust, and startling originality. He’s aided by a dream cast of collaborators: Anderson .Paak, George Clinton, Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon, Tierra Whack, Denzel Curry, Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces, Toro y Moi, and his telepathic kinsman, Thundercat. David Lynch even pops up for an eerie narration wherein he somberly warns that, “Fire is coming.” But they all naturally bend to the magnetic warp of Lotus’ spells—a transfixing hex unto themselves.
Label: Warp Records – WARPLP291
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 24 May 2019
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz
Style: Abstract, Jazzy Hip-Hop, Fusion
Tracklist
A1 Heroes
A2 Post Requisite
A3 Heroes In A Half Shell
A4 More
A5 Capillaries
A6 Burning Down The House
A7 Spontaneous
B1 Takashi
B2 Pilgrim Side Eye
B3 All Spies
B4 Yellow Belly
B5 Black Balloons Reprise
C1 Fire Is Coming
C2 Inside Your Home
C3 Actually Virtual
C4 Andromeda
C5 Remind U
C6 Say Something
C7 Debbie Is Depressed
C8 Find Your Own Way Home
D1 The Climb
D2 Pygmy
D3 9 Carrots
D4 FF4
D5 Land Of Honey
D6 Thank U Malcolm
D7 Hot Oct.