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30/70 “Local Knowledge”

30/70’s new album Cold Radish Coma is similar in tone and style to beloved classics by Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, and Lauryn Hill, but the execution is stranger and more abstracted than anything they’ve put out. On a structural level it’s closer to what someone like Flying Lotus does, with fragments and songs blurring together into a single extended jazzy stoner suite. “Local Knowledge” can stand on its own, but even outside the context, it’s like a microcosm of the larger piece in the way the proper pop song structure is buffered on both sides by more elliptical passages. The main chorus hook of “Local Knowledge” is just glorious – it hits you with this feeling of great relief, like this trigger that can make your body immediately go loose and relax. This is the centerpiece of the record, and you can feel the mood shift carry over into the tone of the album’s second half.

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