12/7/2022 0 Comments Hiatus kaiyote mood valiant review![]() ![]() Some of these songs are like, pretty old for us. It’s always long and it has its ups and downs and challenges and then sometimes bits that come together real easy… Some of these songs have been around for a while. Paul Bender: From the first recordings we made towards this album to the completion, it was like a few years, you know, so it’s always a complicated process. In light of this new release, Quip was able to get our hands on a few thoughts from the band on the process, transformation, and other fruitful insights on the new record. The latest, third Hiatus Kaiyote album, is a transformation that departs from their typically recorded live set sound to a more polished studio production and according to Pitchfork “the most vibrant they’ve ever sounded on record”. ![]() ![]() The band (Nai Palm on guitar and vocals, Paul Bender on bass, Simon Mavin on keys, and Perrin Moss on drums) first broke out in 2021 with Tawk Tomahawk LP, which got praise from the industry and established artists alike. Get Sun is a particularly sumptuous strings-and-horns high point, and it’ll be a tragedy if the band don’t get to share the hushed intimacies of Rose Water with a festival crowd before season’s end.Melbourne-based band Hiatus Kaiyote recently dropped their latest full album release Mood Valiant via Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune. ![]() We get irregular time signatures, birdsong and other found sounds long, wordless passages and tricksy skits and an intoxicating confidence in their arrangements. Mood Valiant has been delayed by solo careers, the pandemic and Saalfield’s successful breast cancer surgery, but it’s the group’s most coherent work yet. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm: ‘Last year I lost a breast and then my bird. Singer-lyricist Nai Palm (real name Naomi Saalfield) might not be taking her responsibilities entirely seriously – this is a band that have been long lauded for their inventive, chameleon-like R&B, rather than radio bait – but even without an obvious hit, there’s much to like about their third album. The Australian quartet kick off the track Chivalry Is Not Dead with some seductive musings about our mucus-dripping friends, then move on to seahorse sex, hummingbirds and batteries. You are not, in that case, Hiatus Kaiyote. If you were trying to write the words for a sexy comeback song about the candied pleasures of the flesh, you’d probably avoid the mating rituals of the leopard slug. ![]()
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