ATAVISTA (X) (2LP)

ATAVISTA (X) (2LP)"For years, Childish Gambinos Atavista hid in plain sight. When he released an unfinished version of the record on March 15, 2020, it spent just 12 hours on his website before he pulled it down. Reappearing on streaming a week later as 3. 15. 20, the project brought up almost as many questions as sparkling neo soul anthems, which still sounded slicker than the average as raw cuts titled after timestamps. Atavista is an ode to impermanence, never more

most would rate it VG+

maverick jazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East and is a harbinger of some of the best in the 1970s jazz underground

This is not your normal death metal album

” and the hard-charging “Bootlickers of the Patriarchy

balancing psychedelic sounds with a sense of sociopolitical urgency

Sun Ra and Stockhausen

Del Water Gap has recently been on the road with Maggie Rogers

It's about the fact that our generation is spoon-fed information

Light accumulation around corners

while Nathan explores the afterlife of a creative death

“It makes me think

Keyboardist Walter Bishop