Aa
Baauer made his name with slyly heavyweight trap songs, and while his debut album has plenty of low end, it also looks beyond the party. It\'s front-loaded with tunes suffused with echo and edginess; that goes equally for the slinky UK garage cut \"Body,\" the 150-BPM banger \"GoGo!\" and the slow-motion \"Pinku,\" which sounds like a hazy Daft Punk. \"Day Ones\" is a double-barreled blast of grime, the globe-trotting \"Temple\" pairs koto with 808, and \"Make It Bang\" explores Baltimore club. Thirteen tunes, 13 different pins in his world bass map.
After surviving his runaway viral hit "Harlem Shake," Baauer returns with a full-length on which appearances by Future, Pusha T, M.I.A. and others function like power-ups, allowing the album to ratchet up in excitement.
Whether it’s tribal percussion, UK hip-hop, US rap, Eastern cyberfunk à la Daft Punk, or Brazilian-pop-sampling, Aa persists as an agile, flexible beast.
Four years since the exciting ‘Dum Dum’ EP, ‘Harlem Shake’s initial release and that LFTF mix helped to open the ears of the wider