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MH-259 Head Like A Kite - There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere  There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere, Head Like A Kite’s second full-length album, and first for Mush, is an expert blend of electronic rock production and pure pop-songcraft built on a bed of pillaged found-sound from cities the band visited on their 2006 US tour. No stranger to sharing the stage with big names on national and international turf, ringmaster Dave Einmo has assembled some of Seattle’s finest for the album including members of The Long Winters, Smoosh, Radio 4, Crooked Fingers, and Preston School Of Industry. Whether it be guest vocals from Asya Smoosh and Graig Markel, added inspiration from touring drummer Trent Moorman, or the production of Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine) each track is flavored with the perfect additions to the epic songwriting and big-beat electronic production that is Head Like A Kite’s forte. There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere strikes the balance between art and craft and is the finest sonic road-trip in the Mush catalog. |
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| Possibly the best release out of the Northwest this year - KEXP / A true genre-twisted party album that appropriately captures the sounds of an eclectic America - Urb / The dreamy soundtrack to your imaginary trip into space - The Stranger / Deserves a lot of indie play - Pop Matters / Friskiness is refreshing – AP |
| This is the sound of life passing, sun-dappled and sleepy-eyed, full of rich sepia tones and fuzzy edges, a lo-fi time lapse of your entire existence. Steven Wilkinson is the one-man force behind Bibio’s enchanting appeal, and while he often uses electronic touches and washes to bring out the character of his music, this song sort of purifies everything that he strains to accomplish. Layer upon layer of acoustic guitar loops build on each others melodies, some of them playing forward and others being looped backwards, so that when they are heard as a whole they amalgamate into this windswept vision of existential presence. I have tried to turn others onto Bibio’s supernatural folk, but for some reason it doesn’t catch them the way is has me…so forgive me if I’m just crazy as a loon, but these riffs sooth my busy mind. - Mystic Clover Honeypot |
