New Music: What Happens When You Die
If you’ve never heard the music of Flying Lotus, distilling it is tough, says NPR. You might say it’s whatever it needs to be: In trying to evoke the widest possible range of human feelings, the musician and producer born Steven Ellison might reach to hip hop, jazz, rock, electronic or avant-garde sounds the way a painter reaches for different colors. Flying Lotus calls on all the colors of his musical rainbow on his new album, “You’re Dead!” — a set of tracks that collectively explore what happens to human consciousness when you die.
