The Sound of Lasso

John Coltrane once claimed that you could play a shoestring if you're sincere, so imagine what a sincere, gifted, and unremittingly devoted artist can do with a drum machine, piano, and 13 musicians at his disposal. With 'The Sound of Lasso', the Michigan composer, The Lasso, has turned these intangible emotions into lush wordless symphonies. It's a sound that's capable of channeling both the beauty of a frozen great lake and the warmth of a tropical savannah; it's psychedelic and eerily comforting, chameleonic but unmistakably the vision of a laser-focused mind. A melodic cauldron of lo-fi instrumental hip-hop, face-melting beat music, tribal funk, future jazz, and Boards of Canada-style IDM blasted into the frigid unknown. The sort of record that proves that genre isn't real but the soul is an immutable concept.