#857 Daedelus - Rethinking the Weather

The original The Weather was a right odd offkilter skamperer of a rap album, sounding spontaneous and stoned and scattered; uneven but charming. Arguably that mostly came from the offhanded rapping, but here Daedelus, having stripped out nearly all of the vocals, has created an equally playful, unpredictable, downright fun romp of an album. Samples drop in and out and around, and liberal liberties are taken with the originals' structures, pulling off parts and putting them back at odd angles, leading to familiar abominations, a series of sonic Moduloks put together by drunken schoolkids. A blast for those familiar with the original, and probably pretty compelling for the uninitiated looking for a capricious piece of instrumental hip-hop 4/5