Foma
More astounding new form music from the strident UK underground this week courtesy of 22 year-old Luke Blair, also known as Lukid.
Steeped in the hyper textural, atmospheric edit style of new psych-beat genius Flying Lotus - but more on a down-low, subtly Ambient, or simply more blazed tip - Lukid's second album, Foma, is sequenced music unbound on the astral plane, entrancing and as far gone from its beats and samples digi-design as is possible. Soul-drenched, unhurried and never austere, Blair's loping, fug-blunted production clips project an alternate, languorous future for instrumental hip-hop.
Opening track, 'Ice Nine' is Erik Satie on a vapouriser - its plaintive piano, bed of sample static and tranquilised claps starting the reverie at sub-consciousness level. 'Raise High the Roof Beam' follows like a more blunted cut from Manitoba's debut; with subdued bells, more drum hits and spiraling soft-key melody snippets.
From here the dream's strength builds with sub basses, drones and the onset of some masterful stumble-beat programming. Ultimately, Foma is a hypnotically inviting record that rarely sounds 'electronic' in the old sense.
Release: Album
To Cure: Hypertension
Keywords: UK
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