Our new guest blogger, Jordon Chiarelli, shares his thoughts on the album. Shlohmo, aka Henry Laufer’s Shlomoshun Deluxe, is a collection of lo-fi sounds that were literally downloaded onto his laptop and were molded into a hypnotic wall of bass and dub. The album is truly organic in its creation – it is ballsy in its layers of complex ambiance, such as the track, ‘Hotboxing The Cockpit’, which is the album’s strongest arrangement. The title alone, however, alludes to a green, leafy substance that may ultimately allow the listener to absorb the album in a more suitable state. Tracks worth listening to include ‘7AM’, which takes you deep into a video game world & transcends best on headphones as well as ‘Spoons’, a fierce pounding of bass rhythms that will make any listener’s head bob. ‘Antigravity’ is also a groovy little number which showcases the current happenings in the LA beatbox scene among other neu-bass contemporaries like ‘Flying Lotus’ and ‘Ras G’. The album also includes remixes of ‘Antigravity’ which are quite enjoyable.
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