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30. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!


The concept for this album is to try to sound like the experience of what happens after you die. The immediate…whatever spiritual thing that happens. This is a strange free-jazz album with tinges of hip-hop that luxuriates in the mystery of that most universal of human experiences. It’s fun, mostly. At times scary. Perhaps a little bit optimistic about our spiritual fate. It’s trippy, mostly. It’s hard to talk about individual tracks here, as it’s a pretty seamless album, but “Never Catch Me” (with a guest vocals from Kendrick Lamar) has the best, most uplifting music video of this year. If you do anything from this list, click on this music video.