How many experimental beatmakers could enlist both Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu to sing on his/her album? Probably only Flying Lotus. The inventive producer’s new Until the Quiet Comes features those esteemed guests, but the real star is FlyLo’s production: glistening, expansive, embroidered with the most luxurious textures, and full of atypical funk and soul. This album is hiphop that caught religion at the church of astral jazz and whipped it into a mercurial sound that all denominations can worship. (Neptune Theater, 1303 NE 45th St, www.stgpresents.org, 7 pm, $24, all ages)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...