On Flying Lotus's 6th album, his sweeping jazz-funk feels limitless. It sounds more like a sketchbook, each minute crafted with great care and technical dexterity. He spent the past 5 years working on the album; 10 tracks swelled to more than 2 dozen.
For 26-year-old Steve Ellison's deservedly hyped third album, Flying Lotus loosened the reins and set out to make Cosmogramma, which his label, Warp, promoted as a space opera of sorts.
The insatiable, electrifying talent of Flying Lotus is back to treat us again. High concept beat-science is again order of the day, frazzled with invention, propelled by myriad time signatures and colour burst, cosmic-electronics.