8/10

 

Warp  | 01.10.12

Many producers creating futuristic down-tempo music love to use repetition to lure the listener in to a trance-like state. Tracks are often in excess of 8 minutes long in order to allow their ideas to develop and mature. Conversely, Until the Quiet Comes contains 18 songs yet is a relatively mere 46 minutes long. Each track presents an idea, which once briefly explored, moves on to the next idea, creating a beautiful patchwork when viewed holistically. This could have easily been headache inducing, but a consistency in production and carefully considered links between tracks ensures that it isnÔÇÖt tiring to listen to in its entirety. Only on a few occasions does the track feel interrupted; the groove of SultanÔÇÖs Request barely gets underway before we are ushered on.
Throughout, the tracks largely omit four to the floor beats and are instead laced with jazzy percussion and keyboards, with many of the tracks also featuring the melodic basslines of Thundercat. Together with the glitchy electronics and chopped-up vocal samples, Flying Lotus has produced a memorising world of spacey, jazz-infused beats that sets him apart from the sea of mediocre electronic musicians.

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