Rhys Langston's latest album, 'Grapefruit Radio,' offers a gateway into his world of lyrical acrobatics and spacey production.
In early October, the Los Angeles Metro finally unveiled the polarizing Crenshaw/LAX line, bringing communities from Leimert Park to Westchester into the city’s transit system while simultaneously stoking fears of gentrification and new development in these parts of the city.
About a mile from the plaza where he took the stage, Langston’s home doubles as a multidisciplinary art dojo. Half-finished oil paintings greet you as soon as you walk through the back door, and if you round the corner into his home studio, you’ll find an array of instruments scattered about the room, obscuring the booklets of original, mixed-media work tucked neatly into a corner.The home is exactly what you’d expect from perusing Langston’s discography.
But the album itself was only the gateway into Langston’s world. The project was accompanied by an 85-page “Operator’s Manual,” which features his full-color paintings, song lyrics disguised as “diagnostic sheets” and historical lore of “Grapefruit Radio’s” origins within “The Domain of Langstónia.” “I’d notice these gaudy-ass, luxurious words that would be in there,” he said. “It made it a given that I could explore words, and it gave me the fascination early. But part of it was I just wanted to sound smart for a long time.”
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