A couple months after "Summer," the track Leon Michels co-produced for the Carters' Everything Is Love, was heard as a sample source on Don Toliver's Heaven or Hell, and only a week after Chicano Batman issued their Michels-produced Invisible People, Michels' El Michels Affair returned with Adult Themes. The first LP of original El Michels Affair material since their 2005 debut, it's not a work of kitsch, as the title might imply, but a sharp -- if smoothly navigated -- turn away from the grime and menace kicked out on their 2009 and 2017 Wu-Tang Clan tributes. Dusty soul and funk are still felt, but it's as if the idioms have been filtered through the more elegant work of scholarly European and British composers of film and library music -- François de Roubaix, Piero Piccioni, and Alan Hawkshaw, for starters -- with a dash or two of prime David Axelrod and The Italian Job-era Quincy Jones. Some sly trap-styled drums excepted, this is another time warp for the theater of the mind, and it's neatly tied together with recurring salient elements that prevent it from slipping into mere background fare. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

1		Enfant
2		Adult Theme No. 1
3		Kill the Lights
4		Villa
5		Adult Theme No. 2
6		Life of Pablo
7		Adult Theme No. 3
8		Rubix
9		A Swift Nap
10		Hipps
11		Munecas
12		Adult Theme No. 4

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