Amema - You're Dead! Review [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

The first time I heard of Flying Lotus was on the top 20 albums of 2014 page. The beautiful and mysterious album cover of You're Dead! made me want to listen to the album. A few months later this album became one of my favorite music albums.

Flying Lotus is widely known for his experimental music style, combining elements of jazz, hip-hop, electronic music and more. As a teen he went to the Los Angeles Film School, something you can notice from the way his albums are made. Even though there's barely any text, every album sounds like one long story. This is mostly present on You're Dead!

The album's first song 'Theme' kicks off with only one sound and is slowly accompanied by drums and some almost inaudible vocals - after 40 seconds it explodes into a mix of drums, bass by Thundercat, saxophone by Kamasi Washington and even cat sounds! Later on we hear Niki Randa singing, which becomes typical for this album as she appears on this album multiple times, delivering some (on the first listen probably unnoticed) vocals. The transition to all these additional sounds is truly magnificent and the best way to kick this album off.

As we progress, we hear 'Tesla' with again Thundercat on the bass and a nice drum solo at the end performed by Gene Coye. We then arrive at one of the best tracks on this album, the extremely chaotic 'Cold Dead'. The beautiful fast paced jazz sounds we hear are abruptly interrupted by the saxophone solo by Kamasi Washington - the perfect combination of instruments at the right time. 'Fkn Dead', the next track, serves its purpose as the intro for the next track, 'Never Catch Me'. As I see it, the song is not supposed to be seen as one full track as it's only 40 seconds, but rather as a warm up for the best song on this album. Featuring Kendrick Lamar, this was the most anticipated song on the album, and it fully lives up to its potential. Everything we've heard on the album builds up to this climax. The nice keyboard pattern at the beginning is played throughout the whole song and Thundercat delivers the best bass performance ever by himself. Kendrick