In essence, Hiatus Kaiyote come across like two halves of a band playing together. Bassist Paul Bender and drummer Perrin Moss provide the adequate rhythm that gives Hiatus Kaiyote their soul/jazz style, but outside of a few sections in which they accentuate Nai Palm’s staccato-styled singing, they rarely stray away from the standard blues scale or hip hop drum pattern. I bring up BBNG mainly because it seems difficult to imagine a group like Hiatus Kaiyote existing without BBNG’s prolific output preceding them.Ĭhoose Your Weapon is Hiatus Kaiyote’s sophomore album following 2012’s Tawk Tomahawk and revolves around the vocal work of singer, songwriter and guitarist Nai Palm and keyboardist Simon Mavin. ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s too much of a stretch to say that BADBADNOTGOOD made smooth jazz “cool” again, but no matter how you look at it, the sudden rise to fame from the three piece collective has made their brand of hip hop meets swing jazz the sound du jour among rhythm centric groups lately. ![]() Review Summary: Choose Your Weapon is a delightfully inventive electro/R&B infusion that slightly suffers from bloat
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