Flying Lotus - You're Dead ALBUM REVIEW 

"this is what Tyler the Creator wishes some of his songs sounded like." ouch.

Flying Lotus is a fucking genius

Kendrick's verse perfectly represents the stubbornness of life in the context of the album's concept. This just shows that FlyLo's features/collabs are meaningful, fleshed-out, and carefully selected in a way you just don't see that often modern music. Combine that with his mature production aesthetic and serious instrumental enthusiasm. Great record.

dead man's tetris rules

This entire album, as an experience, reminds me of some of my friends descriptions of their experiences with DMT. As a drug, it scares the shit out of me, but this album gives me the impression of an out of body journey, someone who is forced to witness their death and by doing so, comes to understand the importance of their life.

I listened to this album stoned as hell in my backyard under a huge palm tree. One of the best music listening experiences I've ever had.

8- ok 9- great 10- death grips

The Boys who died in their sleep instrumental is AMAZING.

strong 9 / light 10 amazing record

This album is what you get when you put jazz fusion, hip hop, electronic and experimental music together to create an amazing spiritual experience of death. I was pleasantly surprised by the way the album starts of, it just unexpectedly explodes into space and stays there until the album is over. Didn't have an issue with the tracks being short though. My favorite FlyLo LP so far and definitely my favorite of the year so far. This is modern day jazz. Highlights of the album in my opinion: Theme, Cold Dead, Never Catch Me (especially the outro, that shit's amazing), Turkey Dog Coma, Coronus The Terminator, Decent Into Madness, The Boys Who Died In Their Sleep, The Protest Thanks for reviewing this album, Mr. Ebony Poontango

3:06 - Theme 3:21 - Tesla 3:26 - Cold Dead - Fkn Dead 3:50 - Never Catch Me 5:07 - Dead Man's Tetris 5:35 - Turkey Dog Coma - Stirring 5:46 - Coronus, the Terminator - Siren Song 6:05 - Turtles 6:18 - Ready err Not - Eyes Above - Moment of Hesitation 6:27 - Descent into Madness 6:42 - The Boys Who Died in Their Sleep - Obligatory Cadence 7:33 - Your Potential // The Beyond 7:37 - The Protest

Pornthony Hubtano

this is the type of record that requires more than just "listening"

Here's a bit of trivia: The vocal samples used on the track "Turtle" are actually from the theme to "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" composed by Ennio Morricone. The film itself is an early example of the italian giallo (stylized horror) genre and the directorial debut of Dario Argento. So even that sample is in keeping with the death theme of the album.

Anti-climactic? No. Selling it way short. FlyLo said the last track "The Protest" was the most important on the album. Not to mention, it's gorgeous. Wish it was 10 minutes long.

There is only one way to truly appreciate this album and it is called Lysergic acid diethylamide.

I DID love this album, but I feel like I'm kinda TRYING to like it more than I actually like it. I don't have any complaints really, I guess it's just kinda too... intense for me? I don't know.

This album is meant to be listened with your eyes closed, don't pay attention to the tracklist, listen to it wholly, as one piece. It's an amazing journey.

honestly love FlyLo, can't stop listening to this album

Least favourite track is 'Stirring'?! That track (while short) is bloody gorgeous and beautifully haunting. It goes so well with 'Coronus, The Terminator' too! Great review though.

finally something above a 6

The album was playing (to my knowledge) in its entirety at my local record store this past weekend. While I thoroughly enjoyed the tracks that played and the overall vibe of the album, I'm just not sure that it's as groundbreaking, or as definitive, as Lil B's "Blue Flame" mixtape.

Obligatory Cadence was a wobbla

The album really felt like a stream of consciousness meditation on death, and the jazzy sound kind of complemented it. FlyLo did another incredible job on this effort.

I feel like FlyLo and Squarepusher should work together someday and make something amazing.

If you buy the vinyl the last song does not just fade out completely, it gets quiet for a bit then fades back in with some beautiful textures that make u feel like ur finally entering heaven. I interpreted the quiet part as a respectful "moment of silence" for those who have actually passed. I love this record.

Really love the concept of this album along with how it was delivered in relationship to jazz music. Truly an experience, and much credit goes to the technical personnel, as there are many incredible guest performances.

@theneedledrop sometimes I get high and really appreciate your videos you're editing is awesome

Definitely my favorite FlyLo album. I think it would easily be a 10 if some of the songs were a bit longer, but for now I give it a 9.5

Hell Can Wait!!!!!!!!!! And the short track lengths on this album get on my nerves but I got over it eventually.

Loved the touch with showing the length of the other albums.

Really like this review. I also love the transition from Dead Man's Tetris to Turkey Dog Coma, my favorite song on the album. Goosebumps. You should review more electronic music. :)

I need to loop turtles for 10 min & fall asleep to it every night

Haha great review. Personally I loved this album inside and out. The last song was climactic in my opinion, with that beat that gives me goosebumps every time. Plus its just a powerful song, especially in the beginning. I also loved the beat on dead man's tetris.

Just wanna thank you for all your reviews. You've gotten me into some favorable music!

I am glad that you enjoyed this album. I was quite curious on your opinion.

Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain 2 or Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait (EP)

"Never Catch Me" is amazing. I love Kendrick, and I love the meaning.

Good review, great album, can't wait to see Flylo live!

I agree! Every single song along with its dynamic transitions stimulated me on so many dimensions. I like your review though, very thorough.

Diamond D - Diam Piece pleaseeeee. One of the best hip hop albums of the year.

Honestly think in due time Until the Quiet Comes will be considered Flying Lotus's magnum opus. Not only does it grow on you, but it feels more and more personal with each listen. The album never fails to give me chills. I think You're Dead! finds a perfect balance of pursuing interesting experimental ideas while at the same time maintaining a very distinct style FlyLo has been known for. It's lively and appropriately poignant at times, but never overbearing. It succeeds at everything it attempts, and it's just a really fun listen. I have no complaints but for some reason I just don't ever see it being my favorite from FlyLo.

Hey Anthony, did you check the album out when he was streaming it along with the Psychedelic Death Trip video? That video really enhanced my listening experience.

Really good review, even though I don't agree with all of it, I like how much you go into it and the depth of research you use. The work you put in really shows 👌 thanks

Anthony, what is te worst album youve listened to this year?

Loved every track on this album except for "the boys who died in their sleep". The vocals reminded me of IceJJFish.

Glad you enjoyed this album so much Anthony! It's definitely my fave of the year so far, and I'm so glad FlyLo didn't let us down after Until the Quiet Comes. I get what you're saying about the ending feeling a little anticlimactic but I personally really enjoyed it because it sounded like classic FlyLo. I listened/watched the live stream with some friends and I remember when the album ended one of my friends blurted out, "I felt like I was snorting coke the first few tracks. I'm glad he calmed down a bit at the end." lmao

Been down since 1983 and the beat tapes.///Flying Lotus does it again! Love the album.. but only had a few quick spins. Waiting for the LP to come in the mail... can't wait

Postthony Mortemno

I think what puts me off this record is that almost every trick (and beat) has been already overused by Flylo that I found it repetitive. That last song also, same beat as 'Getting There' and the build up on the latter is a lot better. Found myself trying hard to like it, is that bad?

very psyched on the new flylo, I also felt that until the quiet comes was a little too subdued as well. steven is BOMBASTIC on this one

left alone these artworks on on the sleeve.. beautiful

Now i can officially love this album thank you basedtony godtango.

Anthony needs to do a track review on BBNG - Velvet.

Hi Anthony and people reading this comment, great video by the way! Really like this flying lotus album since I first heard it a few days ago on odd future radio (I think they played the whole album) are there any other Jazz/hip hop album that are worth checking out or any other flying lotus album (this is my first full listen to his work and I really liked it!) thanks!

4:33 this is exactly what i did when i listened to this for the first time this week and it was fucking amazing. I wasn't feeling none of the tracks when this records came out but as a whole it's one of the best albums this decade.

Please review Rapsody latest "Beauty & The Beast". IMO The only female MC in the game worth talking about.

Damn I really like dead mans tetris

The drummer on one of the songs on the album is actually Thundercat's older brother Ronald Bruner.

Good review, Anthony. I personally have 'You're Dead' on my short list for albums of the year, at least as it currently stands, and I wasn't even a terribly big fan of Cosmogramma and some of FlyLo's previous efforts. Whilst this thought may make some jazz aficionados cringe, I do think that this LP, much more so than any of FlyLo's previous works, will serve as an entry into modal jazz and jazz fusion for some people, and at least some of that accessibility can be attributed to the shortness and diversity of a lot of the tracks.

dead mans tetris is the shit

Anthony please review the new childish gambino mixtape and ep project, STN MTN Kauai

Hello, randomly found this channel while looking up the BishopxDoom album and really enjoyed the insight on that project. It would be awesome if you could review Action Bronson's Mr. Wonderful

Concerning some of the songs that were shorter, that you said present a brief flash of an idea but are never fully fleshed out; that's EXACTLY what I felt about The Protest on this album. It created such this weird longing, like I was waiting for something and then it was over. Feelings were a tad hurt, but I still replay all 1:18 of that song until I get to work in the morning. :)

Still waiting on that Feel Good review for The Internet

KAYO DOT - COFFINS ON IO ELECTRIC WIZARD - TIME TO DIE

I completely agree, just wish it was longer, I wish he would create a 1hr version of this album. Fly lo has the gift to take his listeners on a journey with dynamic and inventive landscapes, and I don't think he is giving enough credit to his creations by cutting them so short.

Hey, Anthony. Will you review the new Daedelus`s album?

Review STN MTN by childish gambino

GODFLESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did Anthony ever review Los Angeles? That's my favorite FlyLo record and wanted to see his opinion

How about the new 'Soen' album: Tellurian? Soen is a prog group consisting of various high-profile musicians.

FKA twigs and flying lotus should do a collaboration

You're Dead > Cosmogramma

i seriously love this album. the sound of this album blows me away. i love jazz and hip hop and these are some of the jazziest drums iv ever heard. this is an album for people who have an ear for complicated sound not a casual listener.

i diagree on one thing - the last song "the protest" is fucking amazing, arguably my favorite track off the whole album, the bump is just so good! and the vocals make me feel some type of way

review Alt J This Is All Yours

this album changed me

Great review! Agreed. Hey how bout the new caribou album. I'm lovin it Would love to see what you think.

The music video for 'ready err not' have a whole new feel to that particular song. After listening to it before the music video came out I thought it was a quirky addition to the album but the video put such a dark slant on the song. So interesting that flylo can totally change the mood of a song just by making a video for it.

3:14 - 3:17. Pause.

aside from the collab with Kendrick, i am not too happy with Flying Lotus's new album, out of 19 tracks, perhaps 3 truly stand out. i am profoundly sad as fuck, i think Cosmogramma is one of the best albums of all time. this album feels darker and sinister than before (which is alright i guess because he's going for a morbid theme but it turned me off a lot of the tracks), i am so confused as to why you would call this album "more upbeat", it is definitely not. the hip hop beats took a backseat to a jazz that's too heavily distorted and isn't as synergistic with the other musical elements, like it was in past albums. the blues guitar is sometimes replaced by an overbearing power metal guitar that sounds awful within Flylo's context. the whimsical sense of wonder, magic and spirituality experienced in his past albums is rarely found in this one, there's more of a sense of dread and roughness. what happened here? there is no way this is an 8/10, i'm sorry i always find myself returning to his past albums to listen to them again, but other than Never Catch Me, Eyes Above, and The Protest, the rest of this album is forgettable. the manipulation of string instruments in Cosmogramma, the harps, the jazz, the sampling of ping pong balls and heart monitors, the flawless modulation and basslines in Until the Quiet Comes, the "laser" sounds ... this is really one of his worst albums yet

Wondering what your opinion is on Tinashe's debut album 'Aquarius'. I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would.

Been following the discussion on the IDM list, and I actually just missed out on seeing Flying Lotus live... However, I really enjoyed the album. IDM-ers hated the shortness of the album, glad to see someone enjoying it. Also, I loved David Firth's video for Ready Err Not.

Review the new Jaden Smith track Melancholy its actually really good

As soon as you made that dumb pun my video crashed.

You planning on reviewing Taiga? I was pretty disappointed by the 6 tracks I've heard so far, and I would be surprised if you actually liked it (since you diddnt really like her earlier stuff, unlike me to a degree), but I'm still interested what you think of it.

theneedledrop Review Curtis Harding's album "Soul Power". Atlanta based neo-soul musician, signed to Burger Records out of Fullerton, CA.

Why such a genious like Herbie Hancock wasn't mentioned?

oi MR NERD FACE! review weezers new album or else

i enjoy watching review on albums i enjoyed listening to

Whats the album cover in the back right of the picture? I swear I've seen that before..

"This is what Tyler the Creator wishes his songs could be" We still in the Wolf/Cherry Bomb era at this point huh. Imagine saying something that doesnt age well.

Death grips

Great. Can't wait to hear it!

That cosmogramma in the back tough.

he didn't really mention that this is a JAZZ album (can't expect a 20something white man who know who HH is either) and if you go in wanting hip hop beats you may be disappointed, HOWEVER, it is one of the best albums i've heard this year and as previously stated from the horses mouth its meant to be listened to in sequence-track times be damned. anthony is always worried about fucking NUMBERS, man. anyways i'm going to see him on sunday & i'm psyched :P

I was personally disappointed by this. Most of the songs just feel like interludes. It sounds fantastic but the songs themselves deliver very little most of the time. Jazz fusion is a genre that needs time to breathe. Doesn't work with such short tracks.

Anthony's point of how certain songs build up incredibly and then just end, maybe that's the point, how death is a sudden end to a vibrant life, sometimes far sooner than people expect. I'm not saying this is intentional or even the case, but it's definitely possible!

Love it Hope his next one is even further out. On the Corner/Get Up With It futuristic jazz funk for the 21st Century would be good or thereabouts. Good review