Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics

[JSngry]

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17811-the-delfonics-adrian-younge-presents-the-delfonics/

I'll better be able to know what I think/feel about it when I get over just how left-field WEIRD the whole thing is. The above reviewer references Tarrantino, but David Lynch is more accurate. Yeah, a Defhonics album with only one of the Delfonics singing (albeit often overdubbed) and songs/productions that are equal parts Dark/Suicidal Sweet Soul, Bad Trip Sunshine Pop, and Raphael Saadiq on a lude-fueled acid trip.

Even if it really sucks (and again, as of now I have no idea if it does or not, the shock is nowhere close to wearing off), it's going to be one big fun figuring that out,

Consider this equal parts Recommendation & Warning, and maybe that's the best combination of all?

[.:.impossible]

MUCH more interested in the Ghostface thing from the same hype.

There are some videos to go along with the Delfonics thing and it all feels like satire and bullshit to me. Adrian Younge has convinced himself that he actually believes the way forward is forty years into the past. He actually hypes this shit as the future of hip-hop.

[JSngry]

All I can say is that I heard The Delfonics in real time, and as a result, this is some of the most purely weird music I have ever heard. People talking about Metheny/Zorn like WOW, didn't see THAT one coming! and no, but not surprising, and probably won't be disorient you, hey did I just have a concussion and not ever going to recover weird the way that this is.

I get that it might be satire/dark humor at some The Weeknd-esque level, and possibly bullshit as well. And I do get that maybe having heard The Delfonics in real time sets me up for this the way that somebody who's always known them as Oldie Music wouldn't be. But I'm not talking that, I'm talking undressing Minnie Ripperton to find out that she's got two dicks, one for you and one for her and you don't want that but wow, not your call now that you got her undressed, you SURE as hell didn't see that one coming, and even if it is a dream, ain't no waking up from THAT one, upsetting weird.

This isn't "updating a classic sound" or anything like that. This is molesting it with a willing adult participant being the one getting molested. Not sure if it's healthy, not sure if I should be watching, but eyes once opened can never be shut again, that type thing.