Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus

Cosmogramma is the third studio album by American music producer Steven Ellison as Flying Lotus, released by Warp Records on May 3, 2010. The album's recording sessions began in October 2008 in Ellison's apartment in Los Angeles, immediately following his previous album and the death of his mother. Ellison used a laptop, a sampler and a drum machine, along with live instruments. It also draws conceptually on lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences, themes that would be prevalent in his 2012 record Until the Quiet Comes. It features contributions from Laura Darlington, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Niki Randa, Thom Yorke, Ravi Coltrane, Rebekah Raff and Thundercat. Cosmogramma is an eclectic electronica, experimental, IDM and nu jazz record, with influences spanning numerous genres, including psychedelic hip hop and glitch. Its songs were described by journalists as multi-layered, dense, varied and with extensive production techniques, incorporating a maximalist and Afrofuturist style. Cosmogramma was advertised with an "augmented reality" application called Cosmogramma Fieldlines, released for free. Though Ellison released no singles, he went on a tour through Canada, Europe, and United States in promotion of the album. The album entered and peaked at number 60 on the UK Albums Chart, and at number 88 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Upon release, it received widespread critical acclaim, cited in numerous year-end lists. In 2011, Ellison released the album's B-side EP, Cosmogramma Alt Takes.