Flying Lotus feat. Niki Randa – Getting There
Three full-length records into the career of Flying Lotus and while little has changed in his overall style, each successive record still manages to astound. Until The Quiet Comes is his latest masterpiece. While this album shares quite a lot with his previous long players, albums that were best heard as full compositions, the tracks here seem a bit more fragmented. This doesn’t take away from a deep ethereal and dreamy quality to the sounds, perhaps nowhere best represented than on his collaboration with Blank Blue vocalist Niki Randa “Getting There.” My only complaint, and it’s even more pronounced on Until The Quiet Comes than previous albums, is why are these songs so SHORT!!! “Getting There” is one minute and fourty-nine seconds of heaven, I understand we’re not supposed to partake of the heavenly while still here on Earth, but if you’re gonna give us a taste, give us a good sized bite please! Then again, when we were bearing witness to genius this pronounced, can we really complain? I’m just thankful Mr. Ellison continues to build on his already legendary status in the world of electronic music.
Here’s a hauntingly beautiful and terrifying short film created to promote the new record by Khalil Joseph. As is the case with the album, I wish this film wasn’t so short, I would love to see this entire album expanded into a film in line with the images here…nothing short of genius.