Hiatus Kayote


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Choose Your Weapon (2015), 6.5/10
Mood Valiant (2021), 5.5/10
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Australian quartet Hiatus Kaiyote, fronted by female vocalist and guitarist Nai Palm, offered an energetic blend of funk, soul, jazz and rock on Tawk Tomahawk (2012), a sort of extended EP with only four real songs which display the singer's powerful jazz voice in unstable settings: the syncopated rhythm and piano minimalism of Lace Skull, the ghost-psychedelic atmosphere of Mobius Streak, and the deconstructed Bacharach-style balladry of Nakamarra. It was followed by the 13-minute fantasia of the EP Live in Revolt (2013).

The 18-song Choose Your Weapon (2015) introduced electronic keyboards in their arrangements. The nocturnal lounge music that turns into a gospel cha-cha fanfare in Shaolin Monk Motherfunk evokes a slower, smoother version of Rip Rig & Panic. The soul of the album, however, are tentacular organisms in costant elegant evolution like the six-minute Borderline with My Atoms and Jekyll. More comfortable are oblique pop-soul ballads like Breathing Underwater and Building a Ladder, whereas more extreme is the dissonant and electronic prog-rock of Atari.

The songs on Mood Valiant (2021) are less convoluted and more elegant, whether energetic romps like Chivalry Is Not Dead, All The Words We Don't Say and Get Sun or mellow and smooth neosoul ballads like And We Go Gentle and Red Room. Halfway between the two the combo achieves the ethereal sophistication of songs like the tropical and jazzy Rose Water.

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