For an artist with such a distinctive sound, Henry Laufer’s music as Shlohmo is unusually pliable. Since 2009, the Los Angeles-based producer has built instrumental arrangements out of tape hiss and grainy textures, gloomy synths and gristled percussion, crunchy guitar and hard-to-identify samples, constructing a world where hip-hop, slowcore, bass music, ambient, R&B, and pop meet in a murky, disorienting middle. He’d already established himself as a leader in the L.A. beat scene when, in 2012, he flipped Jeremih’s “Fuck U All the Time” and found himself with an unexpected SoundCloud hit. The original version was all bubblegum and rosé, but in Shlohmo’s hands it became dark and unnerving, a shift that morphed the song’s meaning: What if telling…

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