Equally remarkable is that none of it seems devised. Within the context of a playlist, any one of a dozen songs here could bridge '50s bop to '60s MPB, or '70s art rock to '80s boogie, or '90s neo-soul to 2000s dubstep. Progressive-eclectic DJs like Gilles Peterson, Garth Trinidad, and Carlos Niño could not have dreamt them up.
As out-there as the material gets, rich highlights such as "Laputa," "Borderline with My Atoms," and "Breathing Underwater" are thoroughly winsome, cast in warm light. Its significance is easy to miss through the battle-theme opening, frenetic mass of swirling/zipping synthesizer action, and octopedal drumming. She gets more personal on late 2014 A-side "By Fire," a burial song inspired in part by her father's house-fire death. In late 2014, Hiatus Kaiyote releases their EP By Fire with three new songs that will appear on the band’s hotly anticipated sophomore album Choose Your Weapon - to be released in March, 2015 on Flying Buddha/Sony Music Masterworks. The lyrics of athletic vocalist and guitarist Nai Palm, dizzying on their own, mix natural, supernatural, and technological subjects and are delivered in an array of styles. 1 Hi y'all This tune is super fun and WEIRD. Considering five fragmentary interludes of varying consequence and so much nonlinear structuring within the proper songs, Choose Your Weapon isn't always easy to follow. Thread starter CYP Start date CYP Senior Member. Vocal melodies and guitar wriggles sneak up and tickle the ears, burbling electronics mingle with spiny acoustic guitars, time signatures abruptly switch and stun. From track to track, one ingenious idea trails another. The future of soul: Hiatus Kaiyote’s supernatural sophomore album The Australian quartet's second studio album is an elevation of what they call 'future soul. The band refines and broadens its attack. The following tracks will sound good when mixed with Hiatus Kaiyote Molassesbecause they have similar tempos, adjacent Camelot values, and complementary styles. Seventy minutes in length, it can be split in half and taken as two volumes that surpass what preceded it. In some ways - literally, for example - Choose Your Weapon is twice the album. Molasses Hiatus Kaiyote Track 17 on Choose Your Weapon The very soulful and groovy outro to the band’s EP ‘By Fire’ and the seventeenth track on the album Choose Your Weapon. Tawk Tomahawk provided a lot to absorb in its 35 minutes. The move worked, at least with Recording Academy voters, who nominated that version for a 2014 Grammy in the category of Best R&B Performance. The young Australian avant-R&B quartet needed it more for visibility than for credibility. When Tawk Tomahawk was picked up by Salaam Remi's Flying Buddha, the label added a bonus version of "Nakamarra" - the album's most direct, traditional song - with a Q-Tip guest verse.