Even the clicks and zaps warm your soul. I’ve never heard flying lotus before this point, but in my opinion, he’s a creative genius. The reception of this album shows this for sure, many deem it a classic.
Clock Catcher grabs you straight away with bleepyness, and organic sounds in melody and soundscape. I’m not sure if its harp but it sounds like it. If your not there, your doing something wrong. Pickled rocks up a high tempo break shuffle with some freeform jazz bass and also the weird hard to describe blip, screaming soundscape background.
Nose art, is a slowly arousing tempo, dubstep, avant-guard, analogue zaps and yet still hypnotic....
Zodiac shit, rocks into some truly slippy dubsteb and grows broadly sonic at the same time. Time for a cone perhaps?!!
“....And the world laughs at you” literally tickles you with clicks, static, zaps and altered voices......
Arkestry, shows up the first, bubbling soulful free jazz sax, mixed with a bit of harp. Then we get into some keys mixed with rhythmic almost clock sounds, in “MmmHmm”. It wouldn’t be avant gard without the weirdness!
“Do the astral plane” rocks my world. There’s an electro disco easiness and organicness with a clickty-clack sounding like a thousand rolling spoons in the rhythm part.
Art albums are often boring, soul-less and only good to listen to when your coming down from some really good shit. I’ve listened to those Tibetan bells, and the screw in the washing machine and honestly they are for monks or mental patients. Get a therapist. However, this art piece shines like a super nova, broad open to any style & soulful. Warm with real organic humanity.
Despite the freeform experimental quality, I revel in the similarity in many ways to free-form jazz, early drum and bass, and soundscape. It warms my mind almost like “life forms
did, but in a more organic way. Classic? Yeah I totally agree.

The whole album, I’ll say it now, is quite something. Fusing experimental/avant gard, dubstep, be-bop, breaks, hip-hop, free-form jazz - live bass, harp and sax, full on soundscape and soft glitch; Flying Lotus creates something that is warm, comforting, yet deeply trippy and soulful. It’s mental and deep. The moments of free jazz style in harp, bass and sax are both creative and easy to access, it’s loose, like a slack rubber band, from the heart and ready.