Bad Neighbor is the latest from Madlib since the Trouble Knows Me EP released in September with Future Islands' Sam Herring, and his first full-length release since 2014's Piñata.
There is so much room for error in the genre that often sees bands walking a thin line between synth wizard and white noise. Slaughter Beach defies that line.
Feeling like the snowy plains of Kansas in their empty abrasiveness, Mutant is an album of serene industrial electronic moments that suddenly sweep you off track and whiten your knuckles.