the core members and electronics? I've only seen you live with the rock setup, and while the old setup is more accurate to the records, I think the variety and energy added with the additional members added a lot to the show.įavorite shoegaze bands / albums? Are you excited for the new Sweet Trip due out in a little? How do you feel about playing live with 5 members and rock instruments vs. the chromatic descending sections in Time Today and 21/04/20, end of verses in You Know How it Is, the IV-iv motif in Dear Future Self, the entirety of Cinema, etc.) Is this colorful use of harmony a conscious goal when you write a song, or does it come about more naturally / accidentally? Put more simply, do you purposely employ music theory, or does it "just come out"? I have a few questions:Īlthough most of your songs seem poppy and simple at first glance, I've noticed almost every song has some clever use of borrowed chords, secondary dominants, etc. Hey guys, love all the work you've put out. Su - Weekly Suggestions Indieheads Community Sa - General Discussion, Best Music You Discovered This Week Tu - Top Ten Tuesday, For Your Considerationįr - What have you been listening to?, New Music Friday Weekly ScheduleĬheck out the Daily Music Discussion every day of the week! Please read the full rules before posting, UPDATED MARCH 2018. The latest albums, videos, news, and anything else indie music related from your favorite artists. Album DescriptionAMA Archive | Community Album Review Archive | Canadian Indie Rock Canon Archive | Top Ten Tuesday Archive | New Music Friday (May 19th) | Album of the Decade Results | EOTY 2022 Results | Rate Announcement: Hyperpop Rate See more Your browser does not support the audio element. Small yet expertly crafted, this is Kero Kero Bonito at their inventive, heartfelt best. Each song is equally ominous and optimistic, whether it's the brilliantly sprightly yet eerie 8-bit fairytale "The Princess and the Clock," the bittersweet realities of COVID-19 lockdown life on "21/4/20," or the hypnotic finale "Well Rested," which closes with Perry intoning cryptically, "Doomsday hasn't happened yet - you cannot stop civilization." To say that the group packs a lot into Civilisation's six songs is an understatement, but the results are far from overwrought. Instead of getting even darker, the songs from Civilisation II respond to the first EP's cautionary tales with fables and stories that incorporate the brighter side of KKB's music and reflect how we cope with crises. Arriving just a few months before 2020 rocked the world, Civilisation I seemed prescient, but Civilisation II put Kero Kero Bonito in the unique position of being able to respond to the issues they were addressing in more or less real time. This is particularly true of Civilisation I's songs: "Battle Lines" throws listeners into a disorienting fray of synths, polyrhythms, and Perry's vocals that owes as much to Ryuichi Sakamoto as it does to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, while "The River" pulses along on a house-inspired beat as humanity is swept away in a cleansing flood. The trio returns to its electro-pop roots, but befitting Civilisation's subject matter, KKB adopts a much more complex style to relay the EPs' parallel history of deception, apathy, and destruction. As Sarah Midori Perry, Gus Lobban, and Jamie Bulled explore the world's urgent but deep-seated issues (war, climate change, tyranny), they encompass the past, present, and future of humanity and their music. With Civilisation - which collects 2019's Civilisation I and 2021's Civilisation II EPs - Kero Kero Bonito magnify their need to understand their place in the world to include humankind as a whole. When their hyper-pop contemporaries were trying to sound as artificial as possible, KKB humanized the style with Bonito Generation's songs about parents and graduation, and on Time 'n' Place, they used '90s alt-rock to embody the clash between nostalgia and reality that happens while growing up. Since their early days, Kero Kero Bonito have excelled at giving their musical directions an extra dose of meaning. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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