Let's Press Up Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight
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"The spark in Fila Brazillia’s organic electronica was far from accidental. Their music carefully weaved discarded sounds with bright new ones, dazzling the mind with a Frankenstein funk powered by the electric charge of their own creative brilliance. Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight was their Dada masterpiece, channeling everything from Dionysian dreams to Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
Luck’s clever patterns require active attention and multiple listens to open up. Jumping their backyard, Fila’s dense jazz rhythms and miasmic horns evoke a winding river trip. The first third of the album is all rapids and clears. Opener ‘Lieut. Gingivitis Shit’ bumps to deep bass and lily-pad tones, its howling guitar scratching an itch deep down in the soul, while the satyr flutes of ‘Hells Rarebit’ beckon Dionysian delirium before a hectic spin in cooling waters.
A trio of masterstrokes marks the album’s climax. ‘Pollo De Palo’ cruises to an introspective bass line, a suite of winds lifting you up through the trees. The beautiful ‘Heat Death of the Universe’ flutters until a hopeful melody zips on high, drums and plucking chords coming to life like excited spectators of a distant rocket launch. The millennial fever of ‘Weasel Out the Muck’ funks out like tank music from the Vietnam War era, its kick drum buckling the breeze under a vapor of violins. A frenzy of keys is answered by a guitar line that would make Jimi Hendrix or Mick Ronson proud. And when you think it can’t get any better, a billowy synth spills out of thin air like colored smoke, leaving you dazed in the waving weeds.
Fila’s excursion through forgotten samples and wild inventions concludes with ‘Do the Hale-Bopp'. It’s a dubbed-out jam of rubbery bass and wobbling twangs, slowly rising up into the ether — a fitting end to an unforgettable trek through the weird and lovely world of Fila Brazillia." T Q Kelly - Ghost Deep
estimated delivery November 2021; delays possible due to COVID-19.
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Includes a pre-order of the full digital album, Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight.
Includes the full digital album, Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight.
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