DaedelusBest Daedelus Albums Ranked

Invention

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8.8

“Daedalus, the most famous inventor in ancient Greece, is probably best known for fathering a dipshit. Daedalus' son Icarus reckoned himself such a player when he decided that flying higher than anywhere else on flimsy wings held together with wax (the Scotch tape of ancient Greece) was a good thing. Icarus was killed when he plummeted into the sea after the heat of the Aegean sun melted away the w”

Of Snowdonia

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7.2

“With the exception of that hideous Adventure Time album from last year, Daedelus' output since his debut *Invention* has been smart, consistent, and fittingly, inventive. The L.A. producer is a master of kitsch, mining vinyl for discarded melodies and cross-appropriating them in his quaint but forward-thinking compositions. Daedelus seems to have unusually high regard for his source material, and ”

Live at Low End Theory

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7.1

“L.A.-based producer issues a live album recorded at his hometown's well-known club night; here his gauzy re-interpretations of his own work take on a whole new life as dance music just as critics and fans were writing him off as a niche commodity.”

Exquisite Corpse

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7.1

“MF Doom and singer Laura Darling are among the guests on Daedalus' mix of whimsical field recordings, downtempo beats, and Surrealist-inspired concepts.”

Rethinking the Weather

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6.9

“I've made enough ill-advised purchases to recognize that it's common practice for artists to release instrumental hip-hop albums, stripping away the vocals and selling rappers' souls to throngs of incompetent DJs. That's why the new Daedelus album is a little perplexing: It's a "rethinking" of this year's The Weather, an album that found Busdriver and Radioinactive unleashing arrhythmic non-sequit”

Bespoke

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6.8

“An enjoyable mess, at its best this LP comes off like someone messing with a radio dial. Busdriver, Baths, Bilal, and Inara George guest.”