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Kid Koala
's
Creatures of the Late Afternoon
is a futuristic sci-fi love story designed as the soundtrack to a family-friendly board game packaged with the album's vinyl issue. Compared to the ambient pop albums and soundtracks he released during the 2010s, the music sounds much closer to the scratch-happy sample collage hip-hop of his earlier work on
Ninja Tune
. Like his more recent recordings, however, the album is devoid of samples of other people's music.
Koala
recorded himself playing numerous instrumental parts, cut the stems to vinyl, and constructed the songs using turntables. He achieves a vintage sound heavy on fuzzed-out '60s garage rock guitars and crunchy breakbeats, and makes it all the more postmodern through constant scratching and effects trickery. Opening track "Hear Now" builds a sense of mystery by inserting a voice repeating code words, similar to a numbers station broadcast, into a slow, swarming beat. A pair of self-referencing interludes taking place in a robot hotel make it clear that
clearly came of age during the post-
De La Soul
era of hip-hop album skits. Several of the best songs feature guest artists (most of which are curiously named after sea creatures), and they sound faithful to certain eras and styles of music while also deconstructing them. The punch-drunk "1000 Towns" (with
Coelacanth
) recalls
12 Bit Blues
album, while "Things Are Gonna Change" (featuring
Lealani
) is an exuberant,
Go! Team
-like cheerleader anthem, and the
Crayfish
-assisted "When U Say Love" is a
Spector
-era girl group flashback. "Let's Go!" has a gaggle of distorted voices scratched around a skippy beat and simple, catchy organ melody. "Jump & Shuffle" channels Jamaican ska and rocksteady, while the much moodier "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" appropriately has spaghetti Western-style guitar and harmonica. After the dramatic battle sequence "Rise of the Tardigrades," the album ends with a wayward, bittersweet doo wop ballad, "Til We Meet Again."
's music remains as inventive and conceptual as ever, but
is the most stylistically varied, adventurous, and straight-up fun release he's made in ages. ~ Paul Simpson
's
Creatures of the Late Afternoon
is a futuristic sci-fi love story designed as the soundtrack to a family-friendly board game packaged with the album's vinyl issue. Compared to the ambient pop albums and soundtracks he released during the 2010s, the music sounds much closer to the scratch-happy sample collage hip-hop of his earlier work on
Ninja Tune
. Like his more recent recordings, however, the album is devoid of samples of other people's music.
Koala
recorded himself playing numerous instrumental parts, cut the stems to vinyl, and constructed the songs using turntables. He achieves a vintage sound heavy on fuzzed-out '60s garage rock guitars and crunchy breakbeats, and makes it all the more postmodern through constant scratching and effects trickery. Opening track "Hear Now" builds a sense of mystery by inserting a voice repeating code words, similar to a numbers station broadcast, into a slow, swarming beat. A pair of self-referencing interludes taking place in a robot hotel make it clear that
clearly came of age during the post-
De La Soul
era of hip-hop album skits. Several of the best songs feature guest artists (most of which are curiously named after sea creatures), and they sound faithful to certain eras and styles of music while also deconstructing them. The punch-drunk "1000 Towns" (with
Coelacanth
) recalls
12 Bit Blues
album, while "Things Are Gonna Change" (featuring
Lealani
) is an exuberant,
Go! Team
-like cheerleader anthem, and the
Crayfish
-assisted "When U Say Love" is a
Spector
-era girl group flashback. "Let's Go!" has a gaggle of distorted voices scratched around a skippy beat and simple, catchy organ melody. "Jump & Shuffle" channels Jamaican ska and rocksteady, while the much moodier "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" appropriately has spaghetti Western-style guitar and harmonica. After the dramatic battle sequence "Rise of the Tardigrades," the album ends with a wayward, bittersweet doo wop ballad, "Til We Meet Again."
's music remains as inventive and conceptual as ever, but
is the most stylistically varied, adventurous, and straight-up fun release he's made in ages. ~ Paul Simpson
Kid Koala
's
Creatures of the Late Afternoon
is a futuristic sci-fi love story designed as the soundtrack to a family-friendly board game packaged with the album's vinyl issue. Compared to the ambient pop albums and soundtracks he released during the 2010s, the music sounds much closer to the scratch-happy sample collage hip-hop of his earlier work on
Ninja Tune
. Like his more recent recordings, however, the album is devoid of samples of other people's music.
Koala
recorded himself playing numerous instrumental parts, cut the stems to vinyl, and constructed the songs using turntables. He achieves a vintage sound heavy on fuzzed-out '60s garage rock guitars and crunchy breakbeats, and makes it all the more postmodern through constant scratching and effects trickery. Opening track "Hear Now" builds a sense of mystery by inserting a voice repeating code words, similar to a numbers station broadcast, into a slow, swarming beat. A pair of self-referencing interludes taking place in a robot hotel make it clear that
clearly came of age during the post-
De La Soul
era of hip-hop album skits. Several of the best songs feature guest artists (most of which are curiously named after sea creatures), and they sound faithful to certain eras and styles of music while also deconstructing them. The punch-drunk "1000 Towns" (with
Coelacanth
) recalls
12 Bit Blues
album, while "Things Are Gonna Change" (featuring
Lealani
) is an exuberant,
Go! Team
-like cheerleader anthem, and the
Crayfish
-assisted "When U Say Love" is a
Spector
-era girl group flashback. "Let's Go!" has a gaggle of distorted voices scratched around a skippy beat and simple, catchy organ melody. "Jump & Shuffle" channels Jamaican ska and rocksteady, while the much moodier "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" appropriately has spaghetti Western-style guitar and harmonica. After the dramatic battle sequence "Rise of the Tardigrades," the album ends with a wayward, bittersweet doo wop ballad, "Til We Meet Again."
's music remains as inventive and conceptual as ever, but
is the most stylistically varied, adventurous, and straight-up fun release he's made in ages. ~ Paul Simpson
's
Creatures of the Late Afternoon
is a futuristic sci-fi love story designed as the soundtrack to a family-friendly board game packaged with the album's vinyl issue. Compared to the ambient pop albums and soundtracks he released during the 2010s, the music sounds much closer to the scratch-happy sample collage hip-hop of his earlier work on
Ninja Tune
. Like his more recent recordings, however, the album is devoid of samples of other people's music.
Koala
recorded himself playing numerous instrumental parts, cut the stems to vinyl, and constructed the songs using turntables. He achieves a vintage sound heavy on fuzzed-out '60s garage rock guitars and crunchy breakbeats, and makes it all the more postmodern through constant scratching and effects trickery. Opening track "Hear Now" builds a sense of mystery by inserting a voice repeating code words, similar to a numbers station broadcast, into a slow, swarming beat. A pair of self-referencing interludes taking place in a robot hotel make it clear that
clearly came of age during the post-
De La Soul
era of hip-hop album skits. Several of the best songs feature guest artists (most of which are curiously named after sea creatures), and they sound faithful to certain eras and styles of music while also deconstructing them. The punch-drunk "1000 Towns" (with
Coelacanth
) recalls
12 Bit Blues
album, while "Things Are Gonna Change" (featuring
Lealani
) is an exuberant,
Go! Team
-like cheerleader anthem, and the
Crayfish
-assisted "When U Say Love" is a
Spector
-era girl group flashback. "Let's Go!" has a gaggle of distorted voices scratched around a skippy beat and simple, catchy organ melody. "Jump & Shuffle" channels Jamaican ska and rocksteady, while the much moodier "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" appropriately has spaghetti Western-style guitar and harmonica. After the dramatic battle sequence "Rise of the Tardigrades," the album ends with a wayward, bittersweet doo wop ballad, "Til We Meet Again."
's music remains as inventive and conceptual as ever, but
is the most stylistically varied, adventurous, and straight-up fun release he's made in ages. ~ Paul Simpson
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