“I'm so stoked for this album. He's making this thing in part to be a giant middle finger to the trend of easy listening ‘Starbucks jazz’ that he thinks has kind of taken over the genre in recent years. Sounds like it's gonna rip.”
That was one Reddit user’s reaction to Gilles Peterson’s scoop at playing the first track from Flying Lotus’ new record You’re Dead! (Warp) on his 6Music radio yesterday. The track is ‘Moment of Hesitation’ and features Herbie Hancock and Thundercat among others. Be warned blink and you might miss it! This clip above also has Gilles Peterson interviewing FlyLo, aka Steve Ellison, Peterson addressing the sleepy-sounding cult figure, in typical chummy fashion, as Steve.