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10.0
11724
10.0 |
Eye Weekly
Flying Lotus, gave us a glimpse with his 2008 breakthrough album, Los Angeles; Cosmogramma is the uncompressed, jaw-dropping picture
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10.0
11819
10.0 |
The Times
These incredible next-level productions instantly render Timbaland and his ilk irrelevant. It’s the in-sound from way, way out.
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10.0
13946
10.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Time will tell if "Cosmogramma" is the most definitive moment of his career, but at this point it seems the realm of electronic music is open for Flying Lotus to be the next big visionary of his genre
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10.0
19795
10.0 |
A.V. Club
Reaches into the past in order to create something clearly of the future – a hybridized work that challenges others to follow its dazzling blueprint
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9.2
11869
9.2 |
Beats Per Minute
This album is a hazy, dreamy, well oiled machine; perfectly crafted and, I suspect, will be a gateway album to many more of its kind for more than a few people
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9.0
11880
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Cosmogramma is the sound of Afro-cosmic jazz technologically proliferating in a thousand new directions at once
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9.0
11908
9.0 |
PopMatters
Flying Lotus is poised to be not only a name to watch in the next decade, but a guiding light and bridge to the next big things
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9.0
19796
9.0 |
Slant Magazine
Every track an unpredictable collage of solid beats and transitory textures, to say nothing of the remarkable distance covered over the course of the record
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A triumph of the head and the heart, and there’s more than enough to keep the feet moving too
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9.0
19805
9.0 |
All Music
Cosmogramma is an instrumental genre-jumping journey for head-bopping intellectuals
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8.8
11962
8.8 |
Pitchfork
FlyLo is working at the height of his creative powers right now, and the scary thing is it's reasonable to think he could get better
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8.5
13945
8.5 |
Prefix
Even though the steady presence of featured performances helps beautify Cosmogramma, this is essentially Ellison’s crowning achievement
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8.0
12118
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
Vocals are a rare extravagance but when they do appear they’re worth it. Thom Yorke guests on ... And The World Laughs With You, which is immediately recognisable as something in the mode of The Eraser
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8.0
19797
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A deep, spiraling crevasse of psychotropic music that is hard to refuse
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8.0
11971
8.0 |
BBC
He understands that it's about the voice as much as the beats
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8.0
11595
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Even if this space opera doesn’t quite make it all the way to the stars, we still get to visit some pretty extraordinary places before the phat lady sings
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8.0
11956
8.0 |
Blurt
It is nothing short of incredible to hear this immensely talented figure in the brave, new world of West Coast hip-hop embrace his legacy with open arms
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8.0
11917
8.0 |
musicOMH
Proclamations of his greatness may be slightly exaggerated, but Cosmogramma certainly adds to a deservedly growing reputation
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8.0
11729
8.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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8.0
11754
8.0 |
The Irish Times
It’s when FlyLo heads for the grooves, as he does on the fantastic Do the Astral Plane, that he really takes your breath away. The trippiest experience of the season
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8.0
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The Guardian
The parts may be disparate but they are made to submit to an abiding mood of vivacity and sunniness
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8.0
11501
8.0 |
Clash
Dense and obtuse it may be but those who follow this most intense sonic explorer will be rewarded the greatest
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8.0
11502
8.0 |
The Skinny
An ambitious, challenging album from a sonic visionary, proving FlyLo is virtually peerless
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8.0
11562
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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7.0
12605
7.0 |
The Quietus
It's testament to how good the vast majority of the ideas are that the whole thing doesn't buckle beneath the weight of its own creativity
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6.0
11579
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
11938
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
Displaying a tacit, oblique distaste for the dancefloor, Ellison has released an unwieldy and obese album into the stratosphere
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6.0
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6.0 |
Rolling Stone
The shape-shifting tracks on his third disc incorporate braying dub-step beats, nature-film-soundtrack atmospherics, fern-bar R&B and free jazz, often on top of each other
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