Sisters

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AlbumFeb 26 / 20169 songs, 28m 50s
Instrumental Hip Hop Illbient
Noteable

Odd Nosdam’s *Sisters* is richly layered ear candy built from record store arcana. A needle skipping over scratchy vinyl wafts through much of the set, whether the work is percussive like “Bow They Will!!!”—rap break pounding beneath clanging hi-hats and plunking piano—or ambient like the title track, an aria of droning organ and sampled choir. Toying with New Age haze and post-rock drama, the Bay Area producer assembles dreamlike hip-hop and electronic experiments that sound slightly out of focus, unfurling like a happy accident from the turntable spun too slow.

5 / 10

Acclaimed beat producer Odd Nosdam has been pretty quiet over the last few years, only rearing his head in 2013 to drop an LP of instrumenta...