MellowHype Discography of CDs

MellowHype albums When the Odd Future crew burst into the mainstream with their first wave of label-backed releases, it felt as though Pandora's box had been opened, unleashing a torrent of chaotic, youthful energy upon the hip-hop world. While members Tyler and Earl Sweatshirt drew initial plaudits with their profane nihilism, duo MellowHype emerged as an altogether different kind of presence. Still cloaked in a shroud of blunted-out darkness, Hodgy Beats and Left Brain continue to deliver sonic uneasiness on Numbers. With a sound that's more subtly sinister than their other OF comrades, the album finds the pair upping the ante with a collection of songs that feels more visceral than their earlier work, while still maintaining enough of a haze that that it feels distinctly like MellowHype. This helps to create an almost intoxicating mix of aggression and dissonance. The way the songs work to rile up, confuse, and generally poke at the listener from all angles makes the group feel like the hip-hop equivalent of black metal (and not just because the album's packaging features an upside-down cross and pentagram), wrapping Hodgy's hostility in Left Brain beats that feel like traditional club bangers that took a detour through the uncanny valley as they unsettle dazed listeners while they try to put their finger on what exactly is wrong. It's that line between accessible and alienating that MellowHype have so brilliantly walked, making Numbers an engaging album from some ...

MellowHype music CDs Originally released in 2010, Blackenedwhite is the second studio album from MellowHype, a duo comprised of Odd Future members Hodgy Beats and Left Brain. The Fat Possum label is responsible for taking this previously subterranean release above ground, and responsible for giving the single "64" its ultra-creepy video. Recording information: The Trap, Los Angeles, CA. Personnel: G. Long, Left Brain, Vincent Turner, Hodgy Beats. Audio Mixer: Syd Bennett.

MellowHype discography Track Listing of songs: La Bonita;

MellowHype CD discography As of early 2012, while The OF Tape, Vol. 2 was seeing release, the wild hip-hop collective called Odd Future had significantly "got real" twice in their career, once with Frank Ocean's rather traditional mixtape Nostalgia and once with the Internet's debut album Purple Naked Ladies. The first one was a home run by mixtape standards, although Ocean's compelling voice was "in demand" and an "easy sell", while the more subtle Internet album stiffed like Tyler, the Creator ...

MellowHype albums Track Listing of songs: Bastard; 67; Forest Green; Welcome Home Son; French; Rolling Papers; King; Bankrolls; But She's Not My Lover; VCR; Steamroller; Rok Rok; They Say;