2019. Hip Hop / Instrumental. The Bay Area turntablist and producer delivers a mammoth double album-half instrumentals, half rap collaborations-aimed at the decades widespread feeling of creeping dread. Shadow deserves credit for spotlighting so many enigmatic underground characters, something he has done throughout his career, but the overabundance of ideas and conflicting styles quickly becomes jarring. Our Pathetic Age reflects the way much of Shadows post-Endtroducing material has lacked structure, with the producer happy to throw ideas at the page, even if many of them dont stick. Its ironic that the albums scrambled nature might also be a casualty of the information overload of the always-online world that DJ Shadow set out to critique. Perhaps thats the point, but it means this album, a whopping 91 minutes long, can be a real slog to sit through. After a while, its hard to resist the urge to simply log off.