Label: Warp
Released 5/24/19
Enter Flamagra - a work that sweeps up every quantum advance and creative leap of the last dozen years of LOTUS’ career and takes them even further; the Warp release encompasses hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, global dance music, tribal poly-rhythms, IDM, the L.A. Beat scene, but it soars above a specific vortex whose coordinates can’t be accurately charted. Other than to say that it is a FLYING LOTUS record, perhaps the definitive one. An astral afro-futurist masterpiece of deep soul, cosmic dust, and startling originality. He’s aided by a dream cast of collaborators: ANDERSON .PAAK, GEORGE CLINTON, YUKIMI NAGANO of LITTLE DRAGON, TIERRA WHACK, DENZEL CURRY, ISHMAEL BUTLER of SHABAZZ PALAXES, TORO Y MOI and his telepathic kinsman, THUNDERCAT. DAVID LYNCH even pops up for an eerie narration wherein he somberly warns that, “Fire is coming.” But they all naturally bend to the magnetic warp of LOTUS’ spells—a transfixing hex unto themselves.
Track Listing:
- Heroes
- Post Requisite
- Heroes In A Half Shell
- More feat. Anderson .Paak
- Capillaries
- Burning Down The House feat. George Clinton
- Spontaneous feat. Little Dragon
- Takashi
- Pilgrim Side Eye
- All Spies
- Yellow Belly feat. Tierra Whack
- Black Balloons Reprise feat. Denzel Curry
- Fire Is Coming feat. David Lynch
- Inside Your Home
- Actually Virtual feat. Shabazz Palaces
- Andromeda
- Remind U
- Say Something
- Debbie Is Depressed
- Find Your Own Way Home
- The Climb feat. Thundercat
- Pygmy
- 9 Carrots feat. Toro y Moi
- FF4
- Land Of Honey feat. Solange
- Thank U Malcolm
- Hot Oct.