This album really set my tastes. Before I understood what I liked genre-wise, I bought albums based on the cover art. Led to plenty of great purchases. Blindly picked up Demon Days with only the most mild exposure to hiphop or triphop before. It had so much going on, almost all of it is good enough to be a single, and the end track is transcendental shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJjQj6PkrY . I wish their future albums expanded on that gospel choir sound. Menomena is the only other band I know of that explored it outside of R&B/neo-soul and it's so damn good.
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crvv47_MTK0 I managed to hear it in a church even. SXSW used to be an amazing paradise where you could wander around drunk into any building to find your favourite obscure bands playing off-hours. I heard one of their melodies coming from a church at like midnight and it turned out to be one of the best concerts I've been to.
This album really set my tastes. Before I understood what I liked genre-wise, I bought albums based on the cover art. Led to plenty of great purchases. Blindly picked up Demon Days with only the most mild exposure to hiphop or triphop before. It had so much going on, almost all of it is good enough to be a single, and the end track is transcendental shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJjQj6PkrY . I wish their future albums expanded on that gospel choir sound. Menomena is the only other band I know of that explored it outside of R&B/neo-soul and it's so damn good.
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crvv47_MTK0 I managed to hear it in a church even. SXSW used to be an amazing paradise where you could wander around drunk into any building to find your favourite obscure bands playing off-hours. I heard one of their melodies coming from a church at like midnight and it turned out to be one of the best concerts I've been to.