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That peaks with Palm's aching rasp on the chorus of 'Red Room,' a self-preservation soul ballad on the level of Georgia Anne Muldrow's 'Roses.' It's as if the singer is scratching an itch on the soul of the listener. Just as crucially, 'Stone or Lavender' is left to just strings and piano framing Palm's reassurance that 'We will get over, only if we wanna.' The surface of the whole set sounds slightly scuffed, which has a way of making the material seem a little weathered and even more personal. The kinks are flattened just enough for 'Get Sun,' a rolling and strutting number befitting early-'70s Marvin Gaye with an arrangement from elusive Brazilian wiz Arthur Verocai.

They whip up a tempestuous racket for 'All the Words We Don't Say,' containing Palm's most time-seizing performance. The band's playing is as taut as ever, their abrupt changes in key and tempo, and pattering and jittery polyrhythms, further intensifying Palm's aflutter poetry. Nai Palm (vocals/guitar), Paul Bender (bass), Perrin Moss (drums/percussion) and Simon Mavin (keyboards) navigate the power of music as both an expressive art form, and a practical medium. After an extended hiatus (geddit) the lumbering juggernaut that is Groove of The Week is back (for those who are sick of, fear not it’ll be over soon). Hiatus Kaiyote are one of those exceptional bands whose music exudes a certain brand of academic musical intelligence, while remaining ardently impassioned.

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In 'Chivalry Is Not Dead,' after likening herself to a series of amorous creatures, she goes into overdrive with 'Electrons in the air on fire, lightning kissing metal/Whisper to the tiny hairs, battery on my tongue.' Palm gets straight to the point elsewhere, like in the frictional percussion masterstroke 'Rose Water,' where 'All of my heart, it wants to hold you' shoots forth. on Groove Of The Week 48: Hiatus Kaiyote ‘By Fire’. Palm more often applies her nature and science references to loved-up fantasies. Although all this could have resulted in Hiatus Kaiyote's wildest and most triumphant material, Mood Valiant is intimate and romantic more than anything else. (She also had to re-learn guitar.) In a real way, the title is also symbolic of the whole band, who were subsequently hamstrung again by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, the band were in the middle of making what became Mood Valiant, but Palm was given an all-clear, enabling her to record the album's vocals, by the end of 2019. Mood Valiant also applies directly to Palm, who in 2018 was diagnosed with breast cancer - what her mother died from - and underwent life-saving surgery. It's a nod to frontperson Nai Palm's mother, who would tip-off her mood by driving either a white (positive) or black (negative) Valiant Safari wagon. Take the plunge and listen below.The title of Hiatus Kaiyote's third LP has dual meaning.

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By Fire is breakneck ride from start to finish, the best part being that the band’s new full length, Choose Your Weapon drops March 31st, 2015. “Molasses” grows in volume, tempo and power before it launches itself off a cliff at the halfway point–only to land on its feet with Palm sings “Running with my eyes closed.” The build begins anew as bassist Paul Bender lays hard into fills at every turn, and by the final minute the entire band hits an ecstatic peak of polyrhythms that will leave you breathless.

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Hiatus Kaiyote has never sounded more mysterious–or more mature.Īnd it all comes home on “Molasses.” Filled with the rhythmic stutters that had their debut LP Tawk Tomahawk dropping jaws, the new EP’s final cut is a fresh update of the braniac hip-hop-jazz-r&b fusion that is by now the band’s definitive sound. It’s the sound of chartreuse smoke inside a shining glass room. “Laputa” wafts back and forth with its hi-hat clatters and pitter-patter vocal delivery, all while keyboardist Simon Mavin envelopes the band in gorgeously filtered synth.

“By Fire” steadily boils into a synthesized crescendo, with Palm’s vocals rising like incoming radar blips before the crash of its final chorus and eventual echoing decay. In just three tracks Hiatus Kaiyote packs in more dynamite ideas than can be found on almost any other r&b release this year.