Flying Lotus New Single With David Lynch Is Surreal and Upsetting   Noisey
There was once a time that the producer and director best known as Flying Lotus made things easy on his audiences. He made woozy, uncomplicated beatworkóhe won over bros by dropping EDM remixes of Waka Flocka Flame hits. Those halcyon days are a distant memory in 2019, though. The last decade has seen the man born Steven Ellison diving ever deeper into freak shit. Hes made songs inspired by  and , and he also directed his first feature length filmóa body horror so gross it inspired walkouts at Sundance. This is what he considers "" now.
So its fitting then that the first taste of his just announced sixth album Flamagra is as surreal and overwhelming as it is. "Fire Is Coming" begins with ominously wheezing soundscapes and screaming children, moving subtly through Psycho esque orchestration, before none other than Dvid Lynch shows up to tell an apocalyptic short story about a kid named Tommy who answers an ominous phone call, and his mom who runs into a problem in her garden involving some sort of black slime. He repeats the title of the song like a siren. Its upsetting, and even more so when coupled with the videoódirected by Ellison and David Firth  who you might know as the Salad Fingers guy ówhich features Lynch telling the story from inside the mouth of a wolf in a wheelchair. Its a lot.
Its hard to say at this juncture if the rest of the record will hold this end of days tone, but Flying Lotus himself suggests in a press release that the flames that Lynch describes are at the center of it. Id been working on stuff for the past five years, but it was always all over the place. Id always had this thematic idea in mindóa lingering concept about fire, an eternal flame sitting on a hill, He says. Some people love it, some people hate it. Some people would go on dates there and some people would burn love letters in the fire.
Still, even if its as heavy as this song, at least hes facing the end of the world with some friends. Flamagra will feature contributions from a star studded cast of collaborators including Solange, Tierra Whack, Anderson .Paak, George Clinton, Little Dragon, Denzel Curry, David Lynch, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat, and Toro y Moi. The records out in full on May 24 on Warp. You can check out the tracklist below, and listen to "Fire Is Coming" up above, if you dare.
Flamagra tracklist:
1. Heroes 2. Post Requisite3. Heroes In A Half Shell 4. More feat. Anderson .Paak5. Capillaries 6. Burning Down The House feat. George Clinton7. Spontaneous feat. Little Dragon8. Takashi9. Pilgrim Side Eye 10. All Spies 11. Yellow Belly feat. Tierra Whack12. Black Balloons Reprise feat. Denzel Curry13. Fire Is Coming feat. David Lynch14. Inside Your Home 15. Actually Virtual feat. Shabazz Palaces16. Andromeda 17. Remind U 18. Say Something 19. Debbie Is Depressed 20. Find Your Own Way Home 21. The Climb feat. Thundercat22. Pygmy 23. 9 Carrots feat. Toro y Moi24. FF4 25. Land Of Honey feat. Solange26. Thank U Malcolm 27. Hot Oct.
