Kaytranada – Timeless
(RCA)
Kaytranada’s third album, Timeless, picks up as if the pandemic by no means occurred, as if the concept of a Satisfaction month with out dancing have been inconceivable. Dashing by 21 tracks that hardly ever exceed three minutes, the Haitian-Canadian groove god appears like he completely couldn’t wait to get again in the studio and bang out a 3rd barnburner to hitch 2016’s 99.9% and 2019’s Grammy-winning Bubba.
Although it’s clearly the product of numerous studio hours and telephone calls to illustrious visitor stars, the album’s momentum is so relentless, its power so infectious, that it someway sounds prefer it’s being made in actual time. Timeless is full of a Met Gala value of options, from funk polymaths Anderson .Paak and Infantile Gambino to cult pop singers Tinashe and Ravyn Lenae. All soar in and out effortlessly, as if delivering their flip on the mic at a freestyle session.
Kaytranada’s signature beat, midway between the pulse of home and the drunken lope of J Dilla, hardly ever lets up. Even when he places Charlotte Day Wilson in entrance of cascading baroque-pop textures on “Nonetheless” or Channel Tres over breakbeats on “Drip Sweat,” these curveballs appear to emerge naturally out of the music, as in the event that they’re rare-groove deep cuts seamlessly built-in right into a DJ set. If he have been to acknowledge the existence of hyperpop or Brazilian funk or no matter else has dominated the dance-music discourse on the different facet of the pandemic, Kaytranada may’ve ended up with a extra fascinating album—nonetheless, it’s onerous to think about he’d find yourself with a greater one.
Removed from a diminishing return, Timeless is the sound of a grasp getting again into the groove and discovering his muse burning brilliant as ever. GRADE: A-
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