New York based experimental avant metal warriors KAYO DOT have revealed the art work and track listing for the bands anticipated new release "PLASTIC HOUSE ON BASE OF SKY", due to be unleashed 6/24/2016 via THE FLENSER RECORDS.
KAYO
DOT released "COFFINS ON lO", unleashed 10/16/2014 via THE FLENSER
RECORDS. KAYO DOT signed a record deal with THE FLENSER RECORDS summer
2014 ..
KAYO DOT
released "HUBARDO", the bands 7th studio release, an epic, 90 minute
conceptual double album (self unleashed) AUGUST (2013) via KAYO DOT's
imprint ICE LEVEL MUSIC digitally and on vinyl later.
KAYO DOT released a limited edition double CD JAPANESE version of "Hubardo", unleashed 4/23/2014.
ITP V.013 REVIEW KAYO DOT: HUBARDO:
http://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2013/12/itp-v013-review-kayo-dot-hubardo.html
FROM KAYO DOT:
New Kayo Dot album coming this June grin emoticon https://t.co/Z0Ji6ILtwW
"a refined, and sensual, post-new wave tour de force" - Echoes & Dust
“…a hypnotic blend of sensuous grooves, ghostly heaviness and knotty melodies ..." - Time Out New York
Kayo
Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to
progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant-garde classical,
Kayo Dot is undeniably experimental and utterly unclassifiable. Since
its inception in 2003, the band has released seven full-length albums,
including their debut Choirs of the Eye (2003), the conceptual
double-album Hubardo (2013) and most recently Coffins on Io (2014, The
Flenser). Kayo Dot have toured the globe numerous times over and have
played the stages of Roadburn, SXSW, and many other international music
festivals. In 2015, frontman Toby Driver organized and played a
12-concert retrospective at The Stone in NYC. Now, Kayo Dot is gearing
up for the release of a new LP: Plastic House on Base of Sky, due out
June 24th, 2016 from The Flenser.
On Plastic House
on Base of Sky, Kayo Dot fully embraces Coffins on Io's electronic
allusions, incorporating a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage
analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the
explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the
forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton
Subotnick. This 40 minute-long, 5-song LP goes beyond the future-noir
theme of Coffins on Io and is an innovative and biomechanical work of
art. Think seemingly impossible architecture, dead satellites, trashed
space stations, wasted old lady heroin addicts hanging out by cheap
motel pools, broken people, and a hopeless dead and polluted world
transitioning into artifice and mechanism and reacting by being
self-destructive, either to the point of utter obliteration or a
glorious transhuman condition.
Toby Driver, the
primary composer and bandleader of Kayo Dot, has been fiercely
productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many
songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in
the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single
Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and
convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album.
For as much ground as they cover, it's always in the service of a
carefully curated mood and this is apparent on Plastic House on Base of
Sky's exploration of our mechanical post-human future-present.
The
core of Kayo Dot might be that mood– one that lies at the crossroads of
darkness and mystery. In film, music that accompanies mystery is often
nocturnal, playing on a primal relation in our brains between the
unknown and the night. It's this intersection that is the essence of
Kayo Dot. Driver, who recorded Plastic House on Base of Sky in various
locations from August 2014 to December 2015, again collaborates with
lyricist Jason Byron. Byron, a lifelong student of the occult, gives the
listener a feast of words to unpack that are as elusively satisfying as
the labyrinths of sound they travel through. Whether by way of menacing
guitars, ethereal woodwinds, or aggressive electronics, there's always a
sense that a new passage could open, that around the next corner could
be anything.
Song premieres, pre-orders and more info on Plastic House on Base of Sky coming soon from Kayo Dot and The Flenser .
Cover art by FUCO UEDA / Design by Kevin Gan Yuen.
Plastic House on Base of Sky Track Listing:
1. Amalia's Theme
2. All The Pain in All the Wide World
3. Magnetism
4. Rings of Earth
5. Brittle Urchin
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-