Album Review: Knxwledge - Hud Dreems

Prolific hip hop producer Glen Boothe takes the wraps of his fifth Knxwledge album, a woozy haze of 26 really short tracks that deconstruct old soul/jazz and R&B samples to solid beats and bass, comparisons to Dilla naturally seeming obvious.

Snippets from Erykah Badu and D’Angelo among many well-known others are remixed into really wonky beats. It’s sometimes infuriating that Knxwledge doesn’t linger on a particular vibe for too long but these utterly dreamy vignettes, all sequenced together for continuous listening, add up to an album that nostalgically looks back while applying some contemporary spin.