Life & Death Of Scenery

George Orwell once prophesized, "if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." The latest EP from L'Orange & Mr. Lif, The Life and Death of Scenery, conceives a chimerical "lighthearted dystopia" just far enough from modernity to breathe easily, but close enough to make you consider relocating to that cave in the forest. In this collaboration with the eccentric North Carolina producer, L'Orange, Lif imagines an adjacent future called the "last society," where culture has been obliterated and survival has taken precedence over art. In L'Orange's words, the collaboration is "a negotiation of influences without compromise." You can hear the producer's trademark alchemy of classic boom-rap with glitchy fuzz, a compressed whimsy that slaps against somber scythe-like piano lines, ominous spaghetti western licks, and celestial saxophone licks.