You're Dead! is the fifth studio album by American music producer Flying Lotus, released on October 6, 2014 in the UK and October 7, 2014 in the US, by Warp Records. The album's title and release date were announced on July 22, 2014. You're Dead! received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 36 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". In a glowing review for The Guardian Paul MacInnes said, "There’s always been a sense that Ellison was stretching for a new musical vernacular, one that would continue the lineage of free jazz (he is the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane). This album suggests he might have found it." Michael Blair of XXL applauded the album overall saying, "The genius of Flying Lotus, which has been invariably present throughout his preceding releases, but most especially on You’re Dead!, is that he has an incredible ability to both illustrate and extract exceptional amounts of emotion, without saying much at all." Staff writer at Exclaim! Stephen Carlickm who gave the release 9/10 described the album as, "Excitingly new yet classically evocative, You're Dead! is contemplative but never boring, an example of genre cross-pollination that transcends novelty and, occasionally, time and space as well." The album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 17,000 copies in the United States. In its second week, the album dropped to number 67 on the chart, selling 5,000 copies, bringing its total album sales to 22,000 copies. Writing credits derived from AllMusic. No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Theme" Steven Ellison 1:24 2. "Tesla" Ellison, Stephen Bruner, Herbie Hancock 1:54 3. "Cold Dead" Ellison, Bruner, Kamasi Washington 1:34 4. "Fkn Dead" Ellison, Bruner 0:40 5. "Never Catch Me" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) Ellison, Kendrick Duckworth 3:54 6. "Dead Man's Tetris" (featuring Captain Murphy and Snoop Dogg) Ellison, Calvin Broadus 2:25 7. "Turkey Dog Coma" Ellison, Bruner 3:09 8. "Stirring" Ellison, Jeff Lynn 0:30 9. "Coronus, the Terminator" Ellison, Nicole Randa 2:40 10. "Siren Song" (featuring Angel Deradoorian) Ellison, Angel Deradoorian 2:37 11. "Turtles" Ellison, Bruner, Ennio Morricone 2:06 12. "Ready err Not" Ellison 1:45 13. "Eyes Above" Ellison 1:12 14. "Moment of Hesitation" Ellison, Washington, Hancock 2:18 15. "Descent Into Madness" (featuring Thundercat) Ellison, Bruner 1:27 16. "The Boys Who Died in Their Sleep" (featuring Captain Murphy) Ellison 1:50 17. "Obligatory Cadence" Ellison, C. Staker 2:56 18. "Your Potential//The Beyond" (featuring Niki Randa) Ellison, Randa 1:45 19. "The Protest" Ellison 1:57 20. "Protector" (Japanese and Vinyl versions bonus track) Ellison 2:12 Total length: 38:15 Credits for You're Dead! adapted from AllMusic. Derek "MixedByAli" Ali – vocal mixing Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) – composer, bass, featured artist, guitar, vocals, background vocals Martin Cooke – assistant engineer Nicolas Fournier – assistant engineer Mario Borgatta – mixing assistant Rich Costey – mixing Daddy Kev – mastering Flying Lotus – bass, keyboards, percussion, primary artist, sampling, synthesizer, vocals (tracks 6, 9, 16), background vocals Angel Deradoorian – composer, featured artist, vocals (track 10), background vocals Arlene Deradoorian – vocals Kimbra Johnson – vocals (track 19) Kendrick Lamar – featured artist, vocals (track 5) Ennio Morricone – composer C. Staker – composer Niki Randa – composer, featured artist, percussion, vocals (track 18), background vocals Snoop Dogg – composer, featured artist, vocals (track 6) Herbie Hancock – composer, keyboards (tracks 2, 14) Kamasi Washington – composer, keyboards, saxophone Stephen Ellison – composer, producer Jeff Lynn – composer, guitar Deantoni Parks – drums (tracks 1,5,9,10,13,19) Gene Coye – drums Ronald Bruner – drums Andres Renteria – keyboards Taylor Graves – keyboards Brandon Coleman – keyboards Taylor Cannizzaro – strings Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – strings Brendon Small – guitar (tracks 7, 10) Laura Darlington – flute, vocals (track 19) The French Ensemble – sample source Stephen Serrato – design Shintaro Kago – illustrations Chart (2012) Peak position UK Albums Chart 24 US Billboard 200 19
Flying Lotus' fifth album has the stated theme of the one thing every single human has in common, and just about every conceivable style of music is prone to address: the inevitability and condition of death, and how mysterious it really is. Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Thundercat, and others contribute.
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