Cosmogramma
by Flying Lotus

From Sometype 07/23/2015 11:42 | #146273 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Most sonically interesting album I've heard in a while. Jazz influence mixed with an experimental dance vibe (IDM if you will). Thom Yorke feature is the cherry on top for me. It has its flaws, main one being that it builds and builds to a climax which sometimes only tends to last less than a minute before moving onto the next build-up which at times left me wanting more and feeling shorthanded. But this can be forgiven due to the captivation I felt when listening and the amount of unique ideas done in such a refined way.

From covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/03/2010 01:49 | #16754 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

A fenomenal album, an experimental piece that keeps you guessing what wil come next. Instead of prolonging the songs to 6 or 7 mins as most electronic artists do, FL decides to shoot every possible sound in your mind in usually less than 3 minutes going back and forth with each track, I think this is by far the most interesting bastard child of dj shadow's endtroducing...

From jeremih724 10/13/2014 00:47 | #124270 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

this album really took a long time for me to digest. there's so many ideas crammed in here that on first listen i was almost taken aback. with time, however, cosmogramma's subtle mastery of electronica has grown on me. every single song has so many little details and nuances that come together into a cohesive, forceful, wacky journey through the cosmos. absolutely brilliant

Great from start to finish. I love the jazz influence, and the ethereal production reminds me of some early 2000s Radiohead

From JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/03/2018 01:51 | #212205 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This is a really odd record. It has seventeen tracks, yet if you're not paying attention to it, it feels more like one long track than many albums that actually are one long track. It just has an odd way of blending together.

When I first found this album, I didn't really enjoy it. Maybe its just that there are so many different little sounds happening that it was hard to process all at once. It definitely has a much more maximalist feel to it, compared to most other IDM. But now, coming back to it, I keep enjoying it more and more. The songs are oddly catchy, considering that they rarely break 3 minutes, and only occasionally stay on the same motif for any period of time.

Much has been made of the jazz influences here, though I don't really hear it. Maybe I'm so advanced that I just don't even hear genre. That's not true though, so I probably just don't know jazz well enough. Either way, its not as overwhelmingly obvious at all as people would make it seem.

85/100 (Very Good)