Cassowary

Cassowary is the sound of contemporary Los Angeles, a sun-baked collision of the local flavors making the world cooler and stranger. On his self-titled Fat Possum debut, the 24-year old multi-instrumentalist evokes everything from the loping electronics of the Low End Theory "beat scene" to the freewheeling chops of the jazz fusion resurgence, from the murky textures of Odd Future's genre-hopping basement rap to the vintage funk revisionism of labels like Stones Throw. All together, Cassowary, album due soon, is an artistic statement that's as beautiful and strange as the flightless bird that shares its name.