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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 |
| K-The-I??? will vex you with a flow riddled with indignant syllables, honing all of leftfield hip-hop's particulars. Streams of hook-less rhyme bunches scramble over interstellar transmissions, rock superhero knock-ups and electronic interference. A concoction of Redman meets El-P, carrying on the traditions of Vast Aire and Bigg Jus, LA's KTI ploughs through bombastically vast beats set up by Thavius Beck. These include brilliant loops of fury equipped with vicious horsepower such as those on the monstrous "Lead The Floor" and "Before The Session." Like all good alt-rap dogmatics, he can make your head hurt word by word, but the man who over-embellishes himself with punctuation marks is more of a melodic jargon pusher. "Just Listen" shows a cynical knowledge of relationship breakdowns while keeping it mathematical, and his follow up to Broken Love Letters keeps its head out of the textbook long enough to persist with short and sharp psychotherapy, in cahoots with indie blazers like Mestizo and Busdriver. Complexity worth getting caught up in. - iDJ |
