Scales may be a deeply idiosyncratic footwork album, but it’s far too accomplished to be dismissed as simply “oddball”.
Lil Jabba is pushing towards a visionary, singular sound that goes beyond the conventions of any single genre, and it will be fascinating to witness the reveal of whatever kind of primordial underground caves he unearths next.
Perhaps if it'd been left as an EP that feeling of saminess would have been avoided, or perhaps if some more time had been spent fiddling with vocals, there'd be more to hold on to.