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Mi Vida Local

by Atmosphere

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ltod2
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ltod2 This and other albums are so well written, I’m blown away. Got my ass handed to me b/c as a music junkie, I just learned of this group- and I grew up Midwest (Indiana). Will carry this shame for awhile 2come. Fluidity & movement find me SO thoroughly when these joints play. Supreme kudos & now I shout aboutcha anywhere I go when surrounded with folks like me. Enthusiastically; at that. Good be over, on & within you always.💯 Favorite track: Virgo.
sennin
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sennin “It doesn’t really go very high, if it was born to fly”

Ant and Slug really hit on a nerve with this one. There’s something about accepting the hardships of life and seeing the beauty in it all that really makes this album truly special.

That’s cliche as fuck, but it’s the only way to describe it. Everything on this is gold, except “Randy Mosh” which feels like a bonus track rather than a genuine part of the album considering the wider themes of the record. Favorite track: Mijo.
cmoduletor1
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cmoduletor1 Slug and Ant are two of the best. "Atmosphere it's just a ten letter word," Ant keeps in the cuts. Favorite track: Specificity.
Dextrus
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Dextrus I feel this is the best work Slug and Ant have put out in a while. Southsiders and Fishing Blues had their moments, but this had me in the moment from beginning to end. The maturity and experience are tangible here, properly solidified. It feels like they really have something to say again. The old-school flavour, that unique bluesy, funky, honest and introspective style is back and with it, the soul of Atmosphere. It’s more than just a ten letter word. Favorite track: Anymore.
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Jerome 04:15
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Stopwatch 04:08
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Virgo 04:32
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Delicate 05:05
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Anymore 04:03
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Trim 03:32
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Specificity 02:02
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Mijo 04:07
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Graffiti 04:27

about

It’s a different place than it was two years ago, when Atmosphere released their last record, Fishing Blues. Their seventh album, Mi Vida Local, reflects the ways in which the world–and their place in it–has changed. The idyllic domesticity of the past few records has morphed into anxiety over keeping loved ones safe during turbulent times. The easygoing collaboration between Ant and Slug has started to feel more like the life-or-death intimacy of two men trapped together on a lifeboat. At times, Mi Vida Local is a heavy album, (“I might be the last generation of grandparents,” goes a key line from “Virgo”), but it’s far from grim.
As the name implies, Mi Vida Local is intensely focused on the place it was created–the southside of Minneapolis–where Slug and Ant work tirelessly in their “beautiful basements”, refining their sound without interruption, save for a handful of Minneapolis friends that showed up to contribute. The album pairs complex subject matter with equally deep beats–ones that show a clear lineage back to the psychedelic funk landmarks from an earlier era where America was going through a post-utopian hangover, and prove that there won’t ever be a time where boom-bap beats don’t sound perfectly of the moment.
Mi Vida Local might be the best album Atmosphere’s ever made. It’s definitely the one they needed to make right now, and one listeners need to hear just as urgently. If it’s sometimes an album about how the fight to find happiness never really ends–even after you get the house and the kids and the artistic freedom to make dad-rap records–it’s also about discovering that there’s happiness to be found just in fighting.

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released October 5, 2018

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