Blog: L.A. RECORD

RALEIGH MONCRIEF Watered Lawn Anticon This album is hard to pin down, but I’m finally realizing a pattern here: folks like producer/collaborator Raleigh Moncrief, who might have done booming sets at Low End Theory three years ago opening for Flying Lotus, are getting way more gentle even than the smoothest sample-soul we’ve heard in the recent past. This album starts with a male chorus, echoed finger-snapping, and an occasional flamenco guitar strum—fuck, it could be a spaghetti western ballad (or, more likely, a Spindrift song) if it didn’t also have some electronic beats [...]