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Funeral Balloons
Electronic · 2017 · 12 tracks · 1h 7m

Funeral Balloons

Blockhead

Dense, cinematic hip-hop collages that feel like a midnight walk through a surrealist New York. Warped soul samples meet heavy, off-kilter urban grooves.

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It's like a noir film set in a New York subway station where the ghosts are all soul singers.

A restless, cinematic exploration of urban loneliness and surreal late-night beauty.

Funeral Balloons · vs · Blockhead
Surreal Abstract+1.1σ

The writing leans notably further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 1h 7m
01
The Chuckles
5:42
02
Bad Case of the Sundays
5:10
03
UFOMG
5:29
04
Zip It
5:01
05
Gobsmacked
5:18
06
Your Mom Is Mad High
6:48
07
Festival Paramedics
7:01
08
Cop Rock
4:58
09
Uncleback
5:33
10
Macgruber
4:10
11
Escape From NY
5:27
12
Funeral Balloons
6:38
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the drums in 'The Chuckles' hit with a heavy, stumbling swing against a ghostly vocal loop.
The sudden shift into a more aggressive, synth-driven groove halfway through 'UFOMG'.
The haunting, slowed-down soul sample that anchors the closing title track, 'Funeral Balloons'.
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