American producer Nosaj Thing (pseudonym of Jason Chung) broke through in 2009 with his debut album . It took more than three and a half years before he came up with a successor, to the impatience of fans and critics. Not that the producer was idle in the meantime. He produced and and remixed for , and . The LA man was actually too eager to work on music alone in a dark studio. The long wait
… is rewarded with Home, a cloud of a downtempo album. It seems that Nosaj Thing has not tried to catch up with the latest trends. Home has a timeless sound. This means more dreamy soundscapes and far less grunting dubstep bass than on his debut. For the boy who grew up with Timbaland and The Neptunes and who frequently works with rappers, he often leaves his former instrumental hip-hop sound aside. Instead, eleven themes are so to the point that we can almost call them pop songs. (JE)more
