Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)
Tracklist
Alongside Kamasi Washington and Floating Points, New York downtempo extraordinaire Bonobo's contribution to the new Shinichiro Watanabe series Lazarus helps top up the latter screenwriter's rep as one of the top guns of contemporary anime, building on prior smash successes like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Watanabe's soundtracks have always drawn from the cream of the crop, betraying the visionary's immersion in hip-hop and jazz, Bebop having been through-composed of free jazz urgents from pilot to finale. Now the iron is hot for a new, quasi-electronic OST: among Bonobo's soundtrack contributions is the standout 'Dark Will Fall', bringing slinting guitar, deeply textured ambiences and a Delta bluesy vocal line from featured singer Jacob Lusk.