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Artist: Kayo Dot
Album: Plastic House on Base of Sky
Label: The Flenser
Playtime: 38:22 min
Genre: Metal
URL: http://www.kayodot.net/
Rip date: 2016-06-22
Street date: 2016-06-24
Size: 76.34 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 261 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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"a refined, and sensual, post-new wave tour de force" - Echoes & Dust
ôàa hypnotic blend of sensuous grooves, ghostly heaviness and knotty melodies
..." - Time Out New York
Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to
progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant-garde classical, Kayo
Dot is undeniably experimental and utterly unclassifiable. Since its
inception in 2003, the band has released seven full-length albums, including
their debut Choirs of the Eye (2003), the conceptual double-album Hubardo
(2013) and most recently Coffins on Io (2014, The Flenser). Kayo Dot have
toured the globe numerous times over and have played the stages of Roadburn,
SXSW, and many other international music festivals. In 2015, frontman Toby
Driver organized and played a 12-concert retrospective at The Stone in NYC.
Now, Kayo Dot is gearing up for the release of a new LP: Plastic House on
Base of Sky, due out June 24th, 2016 from The Flenser.
On Plastic House on Base of Sky, Kayo Dot fully embraces Coffins on Io's
electronic allusions, incorporating a variety of synthesizers (many of them
vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses
the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the
forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick.
This 40 minute-long, 5-song LP goes beyond the future-noir theme of Coffins
on Io and is an innovative and biomechanical work of art. Think seemingly
impossible architecture, dead satellites, trashed space stations, wasted old
lady heroin addicts hanging out by cheap motel pools, broken people, and a
hopeless dead and polluted world transitioning into artifice and mechanism
and reacting by being self-destructive, either to the point of utter
obliteration or a glorious transhuman condition.
Toby Driver, the primary composer and bandleader of Kayo Dot, has been
fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many
songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the
realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot
song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention
usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. For as much
ground as they cover, it's always in the service of a carefully curated mood
and this is apparent on Plastic House on Base of Sky's exploration of our
mechanical post-human future-present.
The core of Kayo Dot might be that moodû one that lies at the crossroads of
darkness and mystery. In film, music that accompanies mystery is often
nocturnal, playing on a primal relation in our brains between the unknown and
the night. It's this intersection that is the essence of Kayo Dot. Driver,
who recorded Plastic House on Base of Sky in various locations from August
2014 to December 2015, again collaborates with lyricist Jason Byron. Byron, a
lifelong student of the occult, gives the listener a feast of words to unpack
that are as elusively satisfying as the labyrinths of sound they travel
through. Whether by way of menacing guitars, ethereal woodwinds, or
aggressive electronics, there's always a sense that a new passage could open,
that around the next corner could be anything.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Amalia's Theme ( 7:33)
02. All the Pain in All the Wide World (10:08)
03. Magnetism ( 7:29)
04. Rings of Earth ( 8:40)
05. Brittle Urchin ( 4:32)
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