False Tropics – Sample Based Beats LP (self-released)
Came with a sad, hand-written one-sheet about sending out review copies so that cuz’s closet or basement could enjoy some added storage space, but a 250-count pressing can’t take up that much space, especially when said handwritten note was penned over a year ago. This is considered, probably due to other False Tropics albums and origin of the sole creative force, to be “underground hip-hop” and was most-likely constructed in a manner similar to that of Panda Bear while holding true (knowingly or otherwise) to a strict ‘90s electronica feel like the best of the organic-band-gone-sample-happy-for-one-album detours of that decade, and approaches a scruffy Boards of Canada on some tracks. Totally pleasant, and while nowhere near the high-quality of something like The Avalanches’ Since I Left You, it is nonetheless a great, as Mr. Mosurock might say, daytime record. (http://falsetropics.bandcamp.com)
(Andrew Earles)
