Thievery Corporation

With the release of their fourth album: The Cosmic Game: Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza and Eric Hilton notch a new high point in a career marked by ambitious sonic exploration: steadfast independence: millions of fans: and remarkable global reach. Blurring and transcending the boundaries between rock: breaks: future-bossa: and dub: The Cosmic Game is a psychotropic: aural concoction that stands as a landmark of electronic music: and an essential new installment in the ever-evolving Thievery odyssey. “During the months of recording: we spent a lot of time reading favorite authors and discussing ‘so-called’ conspiracy theories:” says Garza: an approach that manifests itself in the propulsive urgency of the music and the pull-no-punches immediacy of the lyrics. Throwing down the gauntlet from the album’s opening line “well let’s start by making it clear / who is the enemy here:” the album’s opening trio of ‘Marching The Hate Machines (Into The Sun):’ ‘Warning Shots:’ and ‘Revolution Solution’ lay out a narrative of resistance that defines the album’s worldview. A collaboration with the Flaming Lips: ‘Marching’ is a subversive dose of ambient-pop anchored by a hypnotic bassline and the vocals of Wayne Coyne: while the driving “Warning Shots” melds East India and the West Indies with Gunjan\