BLK ODYSSY - MOOD CONTROL [Green/Brown/White]

MOOD CONTROL tunes BLK ODYSSY into a late-night frequency where funk, soul, psychedelic rock and hip-hop all bleed together, pressed here on green, brown and white vinyl.

The Austin, Texas artist, born Juwan Elcock, has built his catalog on retro-futurist sounds that reach back to the past while sounding like nothing else around. This fourth album, released in 2025 on EARTHCHILD and EMPIRE, is a full-blown concept record. Framed like a warped radio transmission, it pushes back against the constant noise and fear piped into daily life, and goes searching for something like healing on the other side.

Bookended by The Nativity of Chaos and The Exodus of Chaos, the album moves like a broadcast drifting between stations in the middle of the night. The title track sits at its center, while songs like Ricky keep shifting the signal, with guitars, synths and layered vocals swirling around Elcock's voice as if someone is slowly turning the dial. The effect is part protest, part confession, and completely absorbing from the first static crackle onward.

This is a headphone record with a message, equal parts escape and wake-up call. Anyone drawn to adventurous, genre-blind soul will find a lot to explore here, and plenty to think about long after the final transmission fades.