Flying Lotus - Youre Dead! (Instrumental) '2015

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[1:24] 01. Flying Lotus - Theme (Original Album Version)
[1:54] 02. Flying Lotus - Tesla (Original Album Version)
[1:34] 03. Flying Lotus - Cold Dead (Original Album Version)
[0:40] 04. Flying Lotus - Fkn Dead (Original Album Version)
[3:54] 05. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (Instrumental)
[2:26] 06. Flying Lotus - Dead Mans Tetris (feat. Captain Murphy & Snoop Dogg)
(Instrumental)
[3:10] 07. Flying Lotus - Turkey Dog Coma (Original Album Version)
[0:31] 08. Flying Lotus - Stirring (Original Album Version)
[2:40] 09. Flying Lotus - Coronus, the Terminator (Instrumental)
[2:38] 10. Flying Lotus - Siren Song (feat. Angel Deradoorian) (Instrumental)
[2:07] 11. Flying Lotus - Turtles (Original Album Version)
[1:46] 12. Flying Lotus - Ready err Not (Original Album Version)
[1:13] 13. Flying Lotus - Eyes Above (Original Album Version)
[2:18] 14. Flying Lotus - Moment of Hesitation (Original Album Version)
[1:27] 15. Flying Lotus - Descent Into Madness (feat. Thundercat) (Instrumental)
[1:51] 16. Flying Lotus - The Boys Who Died in Their Sleep (feat. Captain
Murphy) (Instrumental)
[2:56] 17. Flying Lotus - Obligatory Cadence (Original Album Version)
[2:52] 18. Flying Lotus - Your Potential//The Beyond (feat. Niki Randa)
(Instrumental)
[2:45] 19. Flying Lotus - The Protest (Instrumental)
[2:14] 20. Flying Lotus - Protector

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AllMusic Review by Andy Kellman
An early form of Youre Dead! was the length of a double album -- a large mass of
brief tracks that, for Steven Ellison, possibly signified nothing more than his
fifth Flying Lotus album. As the producer and keyboardist spent more time
absorbing and shaping the recordings, the title, initially comic in meaning,
gained emotional weight while he was provoked to consider his mortality and the
losses he has been dealt, including the deaths of his father and mother, his
grandmother, his great aunt Alice Coltrane, and creative collaborator Austin
Peralta. The completed Youre Dead! consists of 19 tracks averaging two minutes
in length that are intended to be heard in sequence from front to back. Its flow
is even more liquid than that of Until the Quiet Comes, though the sounds are
more jagged and free, with roots deeper in jazz. Ellison once again works
extensively beside longtime comrades and pulls new collaborators into his
sphere. All of them -- bassist and vocalist Thundercat, drummer Deantoni Parks,
saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and many others worthy of mention -- help him
push jazz, R&B, rap, and electronic music forward at once. Most striking and
powerful of all is Never Catch Me, easily the longest cut. An albums worth of
ideas and a whirlwind guest appearance from rapper Kendrick Lamar are condensed
into its four sonically rich minutes. The tone dramatically shifts with the
following Dead Mans Tetris, a sinister concoction of melodic bleeps and gunshot
effects involving Ellison as Captain Murphy, and also Snoop Dogg, in which J
Dilla, Freddie Mercury, and Peralta are all part of the afterlife fantasy.
Previous Flying Lotus releases have their bleak and elegiac moments, but theyre
central here, highlighted by Coronus, the Terminator (an Ellison/Niki Randa
duet), Siren Song (fronted by Dirty Projectors Angel Deradoorian), and
Obligatory Cadence. The instrumentals range from playful, as reflected in titles
like Turkey Dog Coma and Turtles, to the distressed likes of Tesla and Moment of
Hesitation, with the latter two both anchored by Gene Coyes feverish percussion
and Herbie Hancocks glimmering/flickering piano. It all plays out in a kind of
elegantly careening fashion. It concludes with The Protest, where Laura
Darlington and Kimbra softly sing We will live on forever like a defiant mantra.
Like his great aunt, and his great uncle John Coltrane, Ellison has created
exceptionally progressive, stirring, and eternal art.

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