MOOD VALIANT by HIATUS KAIYOTE

SKU119157
ArtistHIATUS KAIYOTE
TitleMOOD VALIANT
LabelBRAINFEEDER
Catalog #BF 112
Tag
ReleaseW 29 - 2021
FormatVinyl - UKLP
Import
 € 23,99 incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

  1. Flight Of The Tiger Lily
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-01-01.mp3
  2. Sip Into Something Soft
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-01-02.mp3
  3. Chivalry Is Not Dead
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-01-03.mp3
  4. And We Go Gentle
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-01-04.mp3
  5. Get Sun (feat Arthur Verocai)
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-01-05.mp3
  6. All The Words We Don't Say
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-01-06.mp3
  7. Hush Rattle
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-02-01.mp3
  8. Rose Water
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-02-02.mp3
  9. Red Room
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-02-03.mp3
  10. Sparkle Tape Break Up
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-02-04.mp3
  11. stone Or Lavender
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-02-05.mp3
  12. Blood & Marrow
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/bf_112_mood_valiant/sf818987-01-02-06.mp3

Description

1 x 140g 12” black vinyl. 350gsm colour printed whiteboard sleeve with matte varnish finish. Black paper inner sleeve + 8 page booklet featuring lyrics and photographs. Download code included.

Hiatus Kaiyote return in 2021 with their new album Mood Valiant, on Brainfeeder Records/Ninja Tune. The twice-Grammy-nominated band is comprised of Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums) and the new album is the follow up to their 2015 album Choose Your Weapon, which Rolling Stone described as "a stunning step up" and took them from Glastonbury to Fuji Rock, from rocking the Roots Picnic to selling out the Sydney Opera House. The new project comes after being sampled on songs by The Carters (Beyonce & Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake—with whom Nai Palm collaborated on his Scorpion album.  

The six year journey of the album originally began on the road, as they added new material to their sets in support of Choose Your Weapon. By the fall of 2018, The backing tracks had largely been laid, ready for Nai’s vocals. Then, during a brief swing through the U.S., Hiatus’s frontwoman was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her mother’s death from the same disease was never far from her mind. Nai rushed back to Australia and into the hospital, where she underwent a life-saving mastectomy.  As she recovered, the band turned back to their work with altered perspectives. Her lyrics, even those written before her illness, took on a prescient quality. 

Then, a trip to Rio de Janeiro in late-2019 to work with legendary Brazilian artist/arranger Arthur Verocai shifted the vibe of the entire album. “We had recorded the song ‘Get Sun,’ and it already sounded good,” says Bender. “We had no idea what he had written for it.” When Verocai fired up his horn and string sections, it was a release for everyone. “Tears were running down my face,” Bender recalls.

The result is an album, bookended by Verocai’s strings, that relaxes into a groove: sunlit, sublime, masterful. Behind everything is Hiatus’ familiar sense of musical adventure, their knack for making the complex sound simple, or in their own words “wondercore”. Simon’s experiment with an odd rhythm in groups of 5 becomes a cascading jam called “Rose Water.” Bender and Simon’s trading of single notes, back and forth, to make a melody becomes “All The Words We Don’t Say.” Nai’s cheeky take on sex-obsessed, three-minute pop hits becomes “Chivalry Is Not Dead,” a song about the bizarre mating rituals of leopard slugs (they turn fluorescent) and seahorses (they lock tails and dance).  The album ends with the delicate “Blood and Marrow,” a Bender bassline to which Nai and Perrin improvised, that Simon pegs as his favourite

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