Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present LSD – LSD (LP Sea Glass Vinyl)
Sia’s always had talent for bending the tropes of pop music and making ridiculously specific metaphors work in choruses – “You shoot me down but I won’t fall / I am titanium” she once sang for David Guetta – and her vocal is as powerful as ever. Labrinth (having dropped the auto-tune of his days collaborating with Tinie Tempah) has a voice packed with soul and feeling: on the record’s belty ballad ‘It’s Time’ he and Sia are both out in full force. And Diplo’s production – all snappy vocal chop-and-manipulation, and a pick’n’mix approach to genre – is embedded deep in the record’s arteries.
There are few surprises on ‘Labrinth, Sia, Diplo Present… LSD’, not least because majority of these songs have been out for ages already. Stand-out moments such as ‘Genius and ‘Thunderclouds’ are undeniably exceptional, but limitless explorations they are not.
Label: Columbia – 19802804591
Country: Europe
Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
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