Here he turns to his first love, hip-hop, although he manages to infuse the genre’s tropes with enough EDM glitches and breakdowns to keep things on the good side of awry.
Obsessed with the in-your-face brio of West Coast rap (N.W.A., Eazy-E, Dr. Dre ...) here he acts as a vehicle for no shortage of lyricists’ bravado, including T-Pain, who invokes Queen’s We Are the Champions on the chorus of Lit, complete with psychotic, distorted effects.
The problem is, there is a little too much of the same, some tracks sounding more tired than virile.
• Steve Aoki. Kolony. Liberator.
• Three and a half stars (out of five)
Single download: How Else
For those who like: Ice T
— Shane Gilchrist
