You may remember back to earlier this year and a certain Mixtape made by Producers The Jet Age of Tomorrow.
The record, entitled The Journey To The 5th Echelon, was perhaps the most unsung LP to be dropped by any of the OFWGKTA collective. It was a shame because the album was an impressive piece of work. It might not have had the allure of blatant homophobia, misogyny or rape jokes, but it was impressive non the less.
In the wake of such indifference to a record, at least when compared to the rest of the collective, it’s nice to see those behind such a project actively still making work and promoting it ambitiously. Hal Williams aka Pyramid Vritra is the artist doing so. Earlier today he dropped the first track from his new album, The Story Of Marsha Lotus LP, due out on Stroll On Records. It couldn’t be further from the Odd Future norm; it tells the story of young lust and love in an ambitious, tender and hormone fueled way. Sure it contains a similar rhetoric to OF, but it does it with a pinch of salt and a glint in the eye.
Coming in at around 15 minutes long, the tracks flows and consumes almost like a jazz improvisation, the different elements of the track flowing into one another seamlessly and coherently.
It really is breathtakingly good.
Stream the track below and preorder the album here.
Pyramid Vritra – The Story Of Marsha Lotus by STROLLONRECORDS