Hiatus Kaiyote / Choose Your Weapon
Album: | Choose Your Weapon | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Hiatus Kaiyote | Added: | Oct 2015 | |
Label: | Sony Masterworks |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2016-05-16 | Pull Date: | 2016-07-17 |
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Week Ending: | Jul 17 | Jul 10 | Jul 3 | Jun 26 | Jun 19 | Jun 12 | Jun 5 | May 22 |
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Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Nov 07, 2019: | organic fruit tracks
Fingerprints |
4. | Jul 27, 2017: | moodswings
By Fire |
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2. | Mar 22, 2019: | Music To
Breathing Underwater |
5. | Mar 18, 2017: | Reckless Burning
Breathing Underwater |
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3. | Jan 09, 2018: | Waste FM
Breathing Underwater |
6. | Mar 01, 2017: | Reckless Burning
Laputa |
Album Review
DJ Aporia
Reviewed 2015-12-01
Reviewed 2015-12-01
Hiatus Kaiyote build on the future soul sound of their excellent debut LP from 2013, Tawk Tomahawk, with more complex lyrical imagery, greater risk-taking with the vocals, and a richly varied use of different instruments. The vocalist Nai Palm's voice is incomprehensibly beautiful. Fantastic band, fantastic record.
RIYL Thundercat, Sia, THEESatisfaction
Favorites: 2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 15
No FCCs
1. (1:34) Choose Your Weapon - Urgent. Interesting drumming pattern layered over the name of the song spoken by different members of the band.
2. (5:51) * Shaolin Monk Motherfunk - Classic Hiatus Kaiyote song structure, prominent vocals, light jazz guitar throughout, cool synths come in at the end.
3. (2:26) Laputa - Positively awash with psychedelic background sounds and lyrics about the absence of the song’s namesake.
4. (0:49) Creations Part One - Short interlude, downtempo, instrumental.
5. (6:02) ** Borderline With My Atoms - What a trip. Starts off downtempo. Occasional twinkling keyboards. Brief samples of guitar and neo-soul sounds. Cascading, chaotic keyboards and insistent vocals at the end augment this track’s bizarre beauty.
6. (5:44) *** Breathing Underwater - Evokes a frenetic marine motion. Vocals are the focus. Concludes with a haunting “I want you to breathe it in / the words / the water” whispered multiple times. Gorgeous.
7. (0:38) Cicada - Short instrumental interlude.
8. (5:00) Swamp Thing - Jazzy keyboards. Settles down towards the end into a simpler structure with a prominent bassline, hushed “oohs”, and gently decrescendoing keyboards.
9. (4:17) * Fingerprints - Slow ballad, subtle but interestingly-changing bass. Prominent vocals + occasional instrumental passages with sax and gliding keyboards.
10. (5:33) Jekyll - Starts off as a slow piano ballad, then changes into a faster piece with funky drums, and then a little later into a repetitive, aquatic melody. Ends in semi-dissonance fading into a delicate piano outro.
11. (2:50) Prince Minikid - Dreamy. Lyrics barely discernible under waves of sound.
12. (6:09) Atari - More electronic and synthy.
13. (5:04) *** By Fire - Groovy. Synths come in mid-way. Semi-spoken vocals from thereon to the end.
14. (1:01) Creations Part Two - Pensive, hazy instrumental interlude. Eerie.
15. (4:54) * The Lung - Lovely fingerpicked guitar, very different instrumentally from the rest.
16. (1:03) Only Time All the Time / Making Friends with Studio Owl - Seems out of place, jarring keyboards.
17. (4:49) Molasses - Another groovy track, classic Hiatus Kaiyote song.
18. (5:42) Building A Ladder - Soulful ballad, cascading keyboards. Drums come in midway and song builds in intensity.
RIYL Thundercat, Sia, THEESatisfaction
Favorites: 2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 15
No FCCs
1. (1:34) Choose Your Weapon - Urgent. Interesting drumming pattern layered over the name of the song spoken by different members of the band.
2. (5:51) * Shaolin Monk Motherfunk - Classic Hiatus Kaiyote song structure, prominent vocals, light jazz guitar throughout, cool synths come in at the end.
3. (2:26) Laputa - Positively awash with psychedelic background sounds and lyrics about the absence of the song’s namesake.
4. (0:49) Creations Part One - Short interlude, downtempo, instrumental.
5. (6:02) ** Borderline With My Atoms - What a trip. Starts off downtempo. Occasional twinkling keyboards. Brief samples of guitar and neo-soul sounds. Cascading, chaotic keyboards and insistent vocals at the end augment this track’s bizarre beauty.
6. (5:44) *** Breathing Underwater - Evokes a frenetic marine motion. Vocals are the focus. Concludes with a haunting “I want you to breathe it in / the words / the water” whispered multiple times. Gorgeous.
7. (0:38) Cicada - Short instrumental interlude.
8. (5:00) Swamp Thing - Jazzy keyboards. Settles down towards the end into a simpler structure with a prominent bassline, hushed “oohs”, and gently decrescendoing keyboards.
9. (4:17) * Fingerprints - Slow ballad, subtle but interestingly-changing bass. Prominent vocals + occasional instrumental passages with sax and gliding keyboards.
10. (5:33) Jekyll - Starts off as a slow piano ballad, then changes into a faster piece with funky drums, and then a little later into a repetitive, aquatic melody. Ends in semi-dissonance fading into a delicate piano outro.
11. (2:50) Prince Minikid - Dreamy. Lyrics barely discernible under waves of sound.
12. (6:09) Atari - More electronic and synthy.
13. (5:04) *** By Fire - Groovy. Synths come in mid-way. Semi-spoken vocals from thereon to the end.
14. (1:01) Creations Part Two - Pensive, hazy instrumental interlude. Eerie.
15. (4:54) * The Lung - Lovely fingerpicked guitar, very different instrumentally from the rest.
16. (1:03) Only Time All the Time / Making Friends with Studio Owl - Seems out of place, jarring keyboards.
17. (4:49) Molasses - Another groovy track, classic Hiatus Kaiyote song.
18. (5:42) Building A Ladder - Soulful ballad, cascading keyboards. Drums come in midway and song builds in intensity.
Track Listing
1. | Choose Your Weapon | 10. | Jekyll | |||
2. | Shaolin Monk Motherfunk | 11. | Prince Minikid | |||
3. | Laputa | 12. | Atari | |||
4. | Creations Part One | 13. | By Fire | |||
5. | Borderline With My Atoms | 14. | Creations Part Two | |||
6. | Breathing Underwater | 15. | The Lung | |||
7. | Cicada | 16. | Only Time All The Time / Making Friends With Studio Owl | |||
8. | Swamp Thing | 17. | Molasses | |||
9. | Fingerprints | 18. | Building A Ladder |