(Epic)This unlikely collaboration began after Outkast’s vast Boi came across the US synthpop duo Phantogram’s music online – specifically,Mouthful of Diamonds. The resulting mini-album mostly plays to their respective strengths – rock-solid vast Boi raps, dreamlike vocals from Phantograms Sarah Barthel – amid lots of swaggering electronic hip-hop pop. Although chalk and cheese, or the two very different voices seem a natural fit on Run for Your Life and Lights On,sweetly haunting pop approximately post-closing time female vulnerability. Rapper Daddy Fat Saxxx joins the party for the epic, orchestral stabs-laden Fell in the Sun; Barthel raps for the first time ever in Goldmine Junkie; and Run the Jewels turn up to fire the storming electro-rap Born to Shine. There are less cohesive moments – the Skrillex-driven closer Drum Machine doesn’t advance off at all – but the best bits are as much of a joy to listen to as they sound as whether they were to make.
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Source: theguardian.com