That’s what the first google search result will yield you for searching “Hiatus Kaiyote”. Folks in the States hearing their shows right about now will surely agree – and peeps in the U.K, Europe, Japan, Russia and Australia can find out or remind themselves as the band continue touring Choose Your Weapon over coming months.Multi-dimensional, polyrhythmic gangster shit. I promise it’s even more delightful than studio-style. And relish your Hiatus Kaiyote whipping.Ĭatch the live Hiatus Kaiyote experience where you cantoo. If you love this music like I do, you know already that buying Choose Your Weapon on vinyl and/or at least cd to hear it as it should be heard, is what’s needed yeah? Hold the album in your hands, read the lyrics, credits and thankyous, and admire the artwork. …featuring strings by collaborator-with-so-so-many-artists of the world including Flying Lotus and Quantic – Miguel Atwood Ferguson. X ‘The Lung’ – Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon (2015)

‘Shaolin Monk Motherfunk’ – Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon (2015) Listen here to two of the album’s 18 tracks in dirty mp3-style. That all things being equal, listening to this album will make you feel something (mostly ‘good’ I suspect, but the full emotional spectrum is available) – and experience the endless realms of your imagination.Īnd finally, that you might find yourself getting a good whipping during a few of the Choose Your Weapon tracks. Go on and tell you simply that Hiatus Kaiyote and other contributing artists to Choose Your Weapon have created 69.27 minutes of soulful, jazzy, swinging, grooving, sonic magnificence that fits into no musical box except the one called ‘Hiatus Kaiyote’.

If I must use words I’ll start with the short and sweet ones Hiatus Kaiyote themselves (Australians Nai Palm, Paul Bender, Perrin Moss and Paul Mavin) use to describe their music: ‘multi-dimensional, polyrhythmic gangster shit’.

Listening, hearing and experiencing this one-of-a-kind music is what needs to happen instead. And I say that with the greatest of respect for Hiatus Kaiyote, their music and their artistry. The less words said about Haitus Kaiyote’s new album Choose Your Weapon, the better really.

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