The Internet were “never supposed to be a group,” according to co-founder Matt Martian. Luckily they stuck it out. On this third album of beautifully crafted, genre-defying R&B-soul, Martian and fellow Odd Future producer Syd tha Kyd – plus musicians Patrick Paige II, Christopher Allan Smith, Jameel Bruner and Steve Lacy – have moved on from the cosmic soul and drug-referencing jams of their 2011 debut, Purple Naked Ladies, to Ego Death’s Grammy-nominated, groove-led musings on love and lust. Syd sounds more confident than ever, weaving her shimmery voice over Get Away’s funk-tinged bassline, reflecting on being sought out by a woman who reckons Syd’s fame has brought in some serious cash, when in fact Syd is driving her old car and “still living at home”. There’s wit and honesty behind her observations of courting and heartbreak, making her pinhole focus on love more about nuance than navel-gazing. It’s just as well the band stayed together.
