Sign up for the 10 to Hear newsletter here. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)Ĭatch up every Saturday with 10 of our best-reviewed albums of the week. The six year journey of the album originally began on the road, as they added new material to their sets in support of Choose Your Weapon.By the fall of 2018, The backing tracks had largely been laid, ready for Nai’s vocals. On their best album yet, Hiatus Kaiyote shine by building an architecture around these emotions, coming alive when they allow themselves to be more than just a great band. Hiatus Kaiyote return in 2021 with their new album Mood Valiant, on Brainfeeder Records/Ninja Tune. But even when she pares down her lyrics to simple paeans of love, lust, and devotion, her voice animates the words with pathos and meaning. Nai Palm is an endearingly stoney lyricist, and, sure enough, she starts off “Chivalry Is Not Dead” with an erotic verse that sounds like it was inspired by a blazed viewing of a nature documentary: “If I were a leopard slug,” she sings, “I would reach out with the blue rose of ours, wrapping myself around you.” Digging more deeply into these feelings-not to mention the genderfucked reproductive practices they imply-could be a worthy next step. The precision and intensity of the music veers toward dubstep, with a grinding half-time lurch punctuated by Moss’ massive kick drum.įor all the dynamism of their music, Hiatus Kaiyote have only a couple of lyrical moods: sultry or ecstatic. In several winning moments, they introduce string arrangements from Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai, bringing a regal spirit to lead single “Get Sun” and the piano ballad “Stone or Lavender.” On the riotous, mid-album highlight “All the Words We Don’t Say,” Hiatus Kaiyote are in their bag. It is the most vibrant they’ve ever sounded on record. This is the first Hiatus Kaiyote album that doesn’t sound like merely a recorded live set you can hear them using the studio to expand their vision of what the band can be. The band (Nai Palm on guitar and vocals, Paul Bender on bass. HIATUS KAIYOTE MOOD VALIANT FULLIn the hookier moments, Hiatus Kaiyote sound like songwriters and performers in equal measure, living up to their self-appointed genre of “future soul”: husky, cyberpunk R&B, with Nai Palm’s molten voice at its core. Melbourne-based band Hiatus Kaiyote recently dropped their latest full album release Mood Valiant via Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune. Mood Valiant has been delayed by solo careers, the pandemic and Saalfield’s successful. Bassist Paul Bender and drummer Perrin Moss are characteristically locked in, guiding us through kaleidoscopic sounds. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm: ‘Last year I lost a breast and then my bird. On “Chivalry Is Not Dead,” keyboardist Simon Mavin juggles synths that creak and yawn. Comprised of Naomi Nai Palm Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums), the new album is the follow up to their 2015 album Choose Your. But the band soon ventures into new territory. Twice Grammy nominated, Melbourne-based group Hiatus Kaiyote returns to announce their new album Mood Valiant. The fundamentals of their sound-like the twinkling Rhodes electric piano that shows up in the brief and tender “Sip Into Something Soft”-are still present. No longer content with merely capturing the sound of four wildly talented musicians in a room together, they transform into something more expansive and psychedelic. Of course, not knowing there was a big pandemic coming, the context of the ‘red room’ now and what that means to everyone sitting in isolation is kind of relevant.On Mood Valiant, Hiatus Kaiyote creeps closer to a unity of virtuosity and feeling. We were warm, we were in another country. When the sun set in my room at a certain hour my whole room was red.”ĭrummer Perrin Moss added that “Red Room” came together quicker than any other song Hiatus Kaiyote has made: “Essentially it was just having fun, man. In a statement, Saalfield explained the inspiration behind “Red Room,” saying, “My vocal booth had a red light in it, and I was thinking about my old house that had all this red-colored glass in it. The track also arrives with a music video, directed by Tré Koch, that finds Hiatus Kaiyote in a room that increasingly - and fittingly - turns red, including an old car with “Mood Valiant” scribbled all over it, which pops from white to red in the final moments of the clip. The tune toes the line between slinky and woozy lo-fi soul, with tight bass and drums, winding guitar, and languid piano flowing beneath Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield’s vocals. Australian outfit Hiatus Kaiyote have released a new song, “Red Room,” from their upcoming album, Mood Valiant, out June 25th via Brainfeeder Records/Ninja Tune.
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