★★★★★
Following a work as audacious and seemingly career defining as 2010's Cosmogramma must be something of a daunting prospect. A self-professed "space opera" traversing an array of genres from post-dubstep to hip-hop to free jazz, everything about Flying Lotus' last full length was ambitious, sensorially overwhelming and relentlessly cerebral...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
2010's heady, blissed-out and frequently dazzling Cosmogramma took Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, to a mainstream of sorts. Like other jazz-tinged club experimenters before him, he attracted guest vocalists and willing remix victims to his production stable - and has done so again for that album's successor...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Stephen Ellison, AKA FLying Lotus has been deconstructing and embellishing instrumental hip-hop since his 2006 debut, "1983." His 2010 album "Cosmogramma" was his most fully-realized work yet. Each track was full to the brim with ideas and sounds, and Flying Lotus was channeling avant-garde jazz more than hip-hop. For his follow up, he has taken it down a notch, moving away from the noisier moments of his earlier work and instead going in a subtler and more subdued direction...
- rapreviews.com
2012-10-25
★★★★★
Warp Steve Ellison continues to cement his stature as abstract hip-hop's bravest voice on his fourth full-length as Flying Lotus. Designed by the artist as "a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies," Until the Quiet Comes is definitely music meant to be heard at night, as Alice Coltrane's most talented grandnephew tones down the glitch and turns up the soul on this 47-minute listen...
- www.relix.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
Since Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus' music has been dreamlike, in the sense that it (consciously or not) eschews typical logic of cause and consequence. It actively resists the formation of concrete short-term memories, consisting instead of an extended series of individually heightened moments, each of which feels deeply significant while it's present, but begins to erode away as soon as it's replaced by the next set of sensations...
- thequietus.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
Listen again to the opening seconds of Cosmogramma. Now do the same with "All In," the opening track of Until the Quiet Comes, Steven Ellison's fourth record as Flying Lotus. Everything you need to know about the difference between these two records is contained there, each album's essence potently distilled. If you like what you hear in the latter case, then good for you. But if you don't mind, I'm going to reserve the right to be seriously disappointed...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
What happens when you get too far ahead? The answer to that question when you're talking about Flying Lotus is that you only get more popular. Cosmogramma, the complex third album from the Los Angeles producer, was his greatest critical and commerical success. It was a right time, right place scenario. Building off the widely heralded Los Angeles, Steven Ellison had the freedom to do just about anything he wanted. So he did. Fusion drum & bass, harp concrete, Zodiac shit...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2012-10-11
★★★★★
Dreams are an incorporeal and disheveled tangle of the mundane, strange and awe-inspiring experiences humans haul through life. Most slip past our purview upon waking, like mice scurrying away from a livid chef. Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus) manages to ensnare 18 night visions on his latest psych-bass masterwork, Until the Quiet Comes...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-10-08
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Giant Steps In the blue corner we have sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke and his laws of prediction, stating in part that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. In the red corner there's math legend Alan Turing and his big test for artificial intelligence, demanding that computers aptly imitate humans. The prize in this fight...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-10-04