Hiatus Kaiyote craft their artistry from a genuine love of music, all else falls to the wayside. Spin’s Rachel Brodsky, their only writer on staff to take the plunge, is at such a loss to describe HK’s sound that she spends the majority of her interview maneuvering the conversation toward politics and food. Stereogum praises Chance the Rapper’s “Fingerprints”-sampling “Hiatus” over the actual album it’s sourced from. Google search “Hiatus Kaiyote” and “Pitchfork” and the second hit will be a feature published by the juggernaut music blog, “The Year In Music 2014: Contributor’s Top 10’s.” My personal contribution as an intern was to place their spectacular EP cut “Molasses” at the top of the tracks list (the first Google hit is another best of list from 2012). It’s bloody absurd, but half of Pitchfork‘s HK coverage is a result of nothing other than my own fandom. But still, I can’t shake a stirring sense of curiosity: How is this band not the biggest thing in music right now? The Pluto Moons‘ Zachary Levine-Caleb thinks it’s because Choose Your Weapon “doesn’t give a shit about the American Rock agenda” and because the group is often pigeonholed as a ” jam band,” which couldn’t be further from the truth.įor better or worse, Hiatus Kaiyote have evaded widespread critical reception. And I cherish the four-piece band’s newly released full-length Choose Your Weapon dearly, frighteningly so, for this very reason.
Consistently, I’m seduced by Melbourne, Australia’s experimental soul outfit expressly because they grant my mind such breadth, such freedom, the opportunity to relinquish the urge to make literal sense of what I’m hearing. Or rather, the allure of words fail to pique my interest. I find myself at a loss for words when I confront the music of Hiatus Kaiyote.
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