You’re Dead! is a radical concept album in which Flying Lotus explores the idea of afterlife through gross sonic mysticism, smelting that missing link between George Duke’s 70s fusion with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The icon of psychedelic West-Coast beatmaking blasts apart even the progressively widening scope of his first four albums, assisted by Thundercat, rappers Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg, Herbie Hancock and the visuals of horror-manga artist Shintaro Kago. It works wonderfully: this is a carnival of imagination with an intricate balance to its sequencing and a cohesion of sound and concept to die for.
