I didn’t come into the album with any notion of what his music should sound like, what he did in the past, or even his last album’s strengths or weaknesses. (One review I read seemed to damn this album more on the merits of the last one over the merits of this one.) I also appreciate all music, not just the scene I’m in to.

With all that said, this is one of my new favorite albums. There’s some misses on here (I didn’t particularly enjoy Giant Squid or Small Plans and the first track “Let there be horns” is good but could have ended a minute earlier) but the others all have a unique, catchy, enjoyable sound that I will enjoy in my collection for a long time to come.

I look forward to the next release and I hope it continues in this direction, if most of his past work involves mostly mixing songs together on turntables.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by jecuellar: My review of RJD2’s The Colossus – http://is.gd/66Oxc…