Flying Lotus - Let Me Cook (ft. Dawn Richard)

JUL 01 2024 · 12:00

Flying Lotus - Let Me Cook (ft. Dawn Richard) (2024) Era: Post-Digital Avant-Funk Era (2024) - Flying Lotus's Spirit Box EP cycle; FlyLo's return to non-soundtrack solo work after a five-year gap, merging Afrofuturist R&B with contemplative house and jazz-fusion aesthetics on Warp Records. A high-value document of Flying Lotus's 2024 aesthetic pivot, the video's restrained warmth and near-static intimacy stand in deliberate contrast to the maximalist visual language dominant in contemporary pop. As a companion to one of the most critically noted tracks on Spirit Box, it captures a rare moment of FlyLo operating in soulful minimalism. Preserves a key node in the Brainfeeder/Warp experimental R&B continuum of the 2020s. Context: Released October 29, 2024 as part of Flying Lotus's surprise EP Spirit Box on Warp Records, his first non-soundtrack solo project since 2019's Flamagra. The track sits at the intersection of FlyLo's Afrofuturist experimental practice and a deliberate pivot toward soulful, accessible R&B. Dawn Richard, an R&B innovator in her own right, was recruited remotely: Flying Lotus sent her an instrumental, and she returned a near-complete song. The EP arrived near Halloween, an intentional framing around transformation and the supernatural, themes consistent with FlyLo's broader interest in the mystical and uncanny. The video's warm, static aesthetic mirrors the track's contemplative emotional register, lush but restrained, intimate without spectacle. Director notes: The video was released on October 29, 2024, concurrent with the surprise drop of the Spirit Box EP on Warp Records. It accompanies the third track on the EP, featuring Dawn Richard on vocals. No publicly indexed production credits (director, production company, DP) were found after exhaustive search of official and third-party sources.