“Sunlight”

I generally think trip-hop should go back to the late 90s from whence it came, but filtered through a late 00s lo-fi, DIY sensibility, and given a distinctly Oakland case of the weirds, it certainly sounds fresh again. There’s even something about tUnE-yArDs that inspired me at one point to describe it as Caribbean-flavored, though I’m not sure if I stand by that.

I like the album more with each listen. It starts strong, and finishes strong enough, though an insufferable three-song streak in the middle does it no favors. Wikipedia says they have a song in a Blackberry commercial. We all just support that sort of thing now, right? More money for small artists, etc. Anyway, this isn’t that song.