Choose Your Weapon
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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.
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.
I admire the ambition on display while simultaneously being underwhelmed by the finished product; it's aight.
Choose your weapon is a very enjoyable listen. Nai Palm's singing is so damn soulful on these almost experimental Neo-Soul Instrumentals. The lyrics are about love but told in almost a poetic and artful way. The Intro to this album sounds like Im being sent to this robot battlefield that I have to fight in. A lot of these songs are either very groovy or almost a R&B feel sometimes like the song Molasses to Building a Ladder. Speaking of Building a Ladder its a pretty fantastic outro even ... read more
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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
