Flamagra is the sixth studio album by American record producer Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison), released on May 24, 2019 by Warp Records.^[6] It is his first album since 2014's You're Dead!.^[7] The lead single, the spoken-word "Fire Is Coming" featuring David Lynch, was released along with its video on April 17, 2019.^[8] The album also features contributions from Anderson .Paak, George Clinton, Little Dragon, Tierra Whack, Denzel Curry, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat, Toro y Moi and Solange.^[9] A deluxe version of the album with the instrumentals was released on May 29, 2020.^[10]

Ellison said that he had gathered different material from the past five years in the process of making the record, and had a "thematic idea" about making an album with a fire concept during that time. He imagined an "eternal flame sitting on a hill", and upon hearing David Lynch talking at a party he was attending, asked him to record the same words for his album, at which point he said the idea for the album became fixed.^[9]

The track "Post Requisite" was featured on the soundtrack of Ellison's 2017 feature film Kuso and was accompanied by a music video. Prior to the album's release, the tracks "Fire Is Coming", "Spontaneous", "Takashi", "More" and "Black Balloons Reprise" were released as singles. The latter is a reprise of the song of the same name from Denzel Curry's 2018 album Ta13oo. The opening track "Heroes" is a new version of the previously released song "Heroes Pt. 5".

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.8/10[11]
Metacritic	80/100[12]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[13]
The A.V. Club	B+[14]
The Guardian	[15]
The Independent	[16]
The Irish Times	[17]
Mojo	[18]
NME	[19]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[1]
Q	[20]
Rolling Stone	[21]

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At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Flamagra received an average score of 80, based on 27 reviews.^[12]

As of July 2019, the album has moved 10,000 units in United States.^[23]

Credits adapted from liner notes.^[24]

Sample credits

• "Post Requisite" contains a sample of "Everything You Do Is a Balloon" by Boards of Canada.
• "Heroes in a Half Shell" contains audio samples of the Dragon Ball series.
• "Black Balloons Reprise" contains a sample of "Ten Et Tiwa" by Alain Goraguer.
• "Debbie is Depressed" contains a sample of the theme for the Wii Shop Channel by Kazumi Totaka.

Credits adapted from liner notes.^[24]

Musicians

• Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – strings (1, 3, 12, 19, 20, 26)
• Ashley Norelle – backing vocals (4)
• Taylor Graves – keyboards (4)
• Ronald Bruner – drums (8, 26), backing vocals (20)
• Deantoni Parks – drums (19, 21)
• Niki Randa – backing vocals (20)
• Thundercat –  bass (1, 2, 4, 6-9, 12-16, 19, 21, 22, 26, 27), Backing vocals (20, 21)

Technical

• Flying Lotus – mixing
• Daddy Kev – mixing, mastering

Artwork

• Winston Hacking – artwork
• Echelon Color – retouching
• Stephen Serrato – layout
• Guccimaze – typeface design
• Joph (Jeong-woo Jo) – portrait