Watching him transform into a rockstar as he shred on the guitar while performing 'The End' and 'Rock Music' was absolutely mesmerizing and left everyone wanting more.

So was this album worth the wait amidst all the moving parts? Are these 13 tracks enough to hold us all over?īack in 2017, Shlohmo debuted some of the tracks featured on the project live during his headlining tour with D33J and Corbin. He even has a photo book titled Send Help on the way. In addition to running WEDIDIT with his friends, Shlohmo also scored A24's forthcoming film Share which recently premiered at Sundance. In the interim, he stayed grinding by collaborating with a variety of artists including Post Malone, Joji, Chance the Rapper, Yung Lean, Lil Yachty, and Corbin.

Shlohmo has created a record as contemplative as it is intense - and one that manages to find moments of cautious optimism amid the chaos, like a flower blooming from the rubble.For loyal fans of Shlohmo, this record has been a long time coming – four years in the making to be exact. It’s a melancholy, beautiful sound and one that proves easily malleable to whatever mood Shlohmo finds himself in - G-funk lead-lines, processed vocals and metal guitars are all incorporated seamlessly at different points. Many of the tracks build up from thick bass tones, often adding plumes of synthesised melody and a generous dose of reverb. While the rhythms switch themselves up a fair bit here Shlohmo’s melodic and harmonic world remains uniform. This allows him to take his music to exciting new places - at points on The End we find garage shuffles and Rephlex-style Braindance freakouts, and plenty of the beat programming draws from trap and hard rock. Where his beats once slip-slid all over the place, now Shlohmo’s drums have a surgical snap to them.

Shlohmo’s style has streamlined in the decade since he emerged from LA’s Brainfeeder/Low End Theory scrum. It’s no surprise to find that this album is a heavy listen. The difference is that this time the stakes are even higher - The End that he’s confronting is the end of the world. As with 2015 sophomore LP Dark Red, The End finds the Los Angeles legend twisting and turning through darkside mutations of hip-hop and bass music. Shlohmo drops The End, his third full-length record and the latest release of his to emerge via the Friends Of Friends imprint.

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