With lines like “ He saw my eyes turn gold and reptile” and “ A ripe submergence of the highest order / No borders,” “Borderline With My Atoms” is surely a song about something, but what exactly is impossible to tell. On what’s essentially an extended intro to “Borderline With My Atoms,” Hiatus Kaiyote make it obvious they’ve been listening to Flying Lotus.
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It will take numerous listens for all these sections and interludes to fully download into our memory banks for now, keep plugged in and keep pressing on. Choose Your Weapon motors at these two main speeds and while it’s a gorgeous ride it’s also easy to feel lost. With “Shaolin Monk Motherfunk” and “Laputa,” Hiatus Kaiyote have demonstrated their new LP’s yin and yang: knotty and restless prog-grooving balanced out by slow easy drifts. Here, it’s important to pause and take stock. Palm’s lyrics add to the effect as she croons out a roster of hazy nouns, the best being “Miyazaki frontier.” Choose Your Weapon–and “Laputa” especially–nails the sort of odd wonder that underlines much of Japanese anime and makes floating castles in the sky seem perfectly natural. “Laputa” is essentially a mood exercise, bringing to mind blooming forests and glittering stars as it gracefully swirls in and out of view. As Simon Mavin’s synthesizer paints huge pastel waves, Palm longs for someone–an “artisan dreamer” who can lead her farther down the path.
Weapon’s prog is strong and it’s here to stay.Ī moment of bliss.
A six minute gauntlet, it’s the first (and only) warning shot allowed. While the songs on Tawk Tomahawk tended to peak and then gently drift away, Choose Your Weapon is much more restless “Shaolin Monk Motherfunk” curls back upon itself, Palm’s gorgeous vocals leading the way, until a fiending synth riff caps it all off. It eagerly swaps from one to the next, assigning the listener a sonic endurance test. By the time the band leans back into a lush Afropop groove, CYW’s nature is already clear: this is an album that’s flooded with ideas. “Shaolin” opens like the Hiatus Kaiyote take on vintage jazz– Paul Bender’s walking bassline punched by drummer Perrin Moss’s old-school swing, which he’s cut and pasted off the ride cymbal and onto his snare and hi-hat. We are about to dash off into something wild.Ĭhoose Your Weapon’s first proper track opens from far-off but quickly turns hyper-present and as lead singer Nai Palm invites us in, singing of clasped palms as we drop into the music. Video game start screen voices add to the virtualness of it all. As a child’s toy declares “The Kaiyote’s goes…,” out of the drift a gritty beat arrives–a jostling knock the likes of which have by now become the band’s signature cry. With its THX-inspired aural bloom, the record’s title track is the sound of an adventure booting up.
It’s also long and dense–70 minutes of grooves proffered at a breakneck rate that closes in simple beauty. Hiatus Kaiyote has diversified their song structures and tones in a very real way and, simply put, this is a record with much more in it. Colorful rhythms once more abound, but this time they’re painted across a wider canvas. While the band’s central sense of groove is still intact, what Choose Your Weapon offers is a broadening of scope. Choose Your Weapon is not Tawk Tomoahawk, in a multitude of ways. Listeners with attachment issues should be forewarned that the new LP has a penchant for leaving a groove just as it seems to be settling in and on a number of tracks, especially in its first half, the shifts can become incredibly frustrating. It’s an ever-shifting work, packed with techniques borrowed from a certain progressive rock tradition that includes Yes and Rush as much as The Mars Volta and prog jazz the likes of Weather Report. After a 3 year wait, fans of Hiatus Kaiyote have finally been rewarded with Choose Your Weapon, the record on which the Australian four-piece opens up their sound into wildly varied new territories.
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