Choose Your Weapon
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Flying Buddha / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS
90
From track to track, one ingenious idea trails another. Vocal melodies and guitar wriggles sneak up and tickle the ears, burbling electronics mingle with spiny acoustic guitars, time signatures abruptly switch and stun.
90
They make poignant soul that’s fresh sounding at all angles. Most importantly, Choose Your Weapon stands on its own as one of the year’s best albums.
83
As intricate as Hiatus Kaiyote’s songs are on their surfaces, there’s even more to behold in their depths.
80
Hiatus have loaded up as many genres as they could fit in this psychedelic jigsaw of a record.
80
The perfect accompaniment for anything vaguely summer-tinged.
80
This is a love letter to the whole of nature, a self-indulgent trip to the other side of consciousness, an experience you have to fully immerse yourself in to appreciate.
70
As it stands, Hiatus Kaiyote have a great thing going — solid chemistry, unlimited potential — but function like they are still feeling out what they're capable of.
AMAZING!
If you haven't been impressed with the works of art pop from the last decade, Melbourne neo-soul band "Hiatus Kayote" gotchu covered.
You want the good stuff, bro. You want the type of shit that keeps you on all 10 of your toes. You can start with the track: "Shaolin Monk Motherfunk", so you know exactly what we're dealing with.
You're hooked on that rusty reverb that blankets over watery piano chords to serve as the intro. It's a wonder how you've been ... read more
If you haven't been impressed with the works of art pop from the last decade, Melbourne neo-soul band "Hiatus Kayote" gotchu covered.
You want the good stuff, bro. You want the type of shit that keeps you on all 10 of your toes. You can start with the track: "Shaolin Monk Motherfunk", so you know exactly what we're dealing with.
You're hooked on that rusty reverb that blankets over watery piano chords to serve as the intro. It's a wonder how you've been ... read more
It´s the jazziest art pop album of the year. The dissonant way of thinking textures makes us sure that these guys are as inventive as they are heart guided. Precious listening.
Almost five years later and i still haven't found a more immersive, thematically rich and ambitious project that attends this neo-soul, future jazz vibe. Choose Your Weapon falls flat in some songs, but as a whole it survives as one of the best albums in the decade.
I admire the ambition on display while simultaneously being underwhelmed by the finished product; it's aight.
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Track List
- Choose Your Weapon
- Shaolin Monk Motherfunk
- Laputa
- Creations Part One
- Borderline with My Atoms
- Breathing Underwater
- Cicada
- Swamp Thing
- Fingerprints
- Jekyll
- Prince Minikid
- Atari
- By Fire
- Creations Part Two
- The Lung
- Only Time All the Time: Making Friends with Studio Owl
- Molasses
- Building a Ladder
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Added on: March 29, 2015