Mellowhype Astro: !!install!!

If you only know MellowHype for their hard stuff, “Astro” is the essential deep cut. It’s a low-key masterpiece of early 2010s alternative hip-hop, and a reminder that Frank Ocean was already an otherworldly talent before anyone knew it.

“Astro” is a outlier on BlackenedWhite , which otherwise has bangers like “Fuck the Police” and “64.” It proves MellowHype could do moody, vulnerable, and melodic — not just aggression. Years later, it’s aged better than most OF catalog tracks because it doesn’t rely on shock; it relies on feeling. mellowhype astro

Best enjoyed alone, headphones on, after midnight. If you only know MellowHype for their hard