KAYO DOT Coffins On Io LP

KAYO DOT Coffins On Io LP

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(The Flenser)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   After Hydra Head stopped putting out new albums, I lost track of Kayo Dot and their new material for awhile, the last album of theirs I have being 2010's Coyote. Not having heard their newer material that came out in the interim, I'm not sure how this new album on new label The Flenser stacks up, but I can say that it is among my favorite music of the band's career. More than ever before, Toby Driver's unique, dark prog outfit Kayo Dot resembles a darker take on the classic art-pop of Peter Gabriel or Peter Murphy as filtered through the dark, malevolent prog rock of Univers Zero or Red-era King Crimson, these songs tinged in an apocalyptic twilight glow; eighth album Coffins On Io could also be the most accessible thing that Kayo Dot has released to date, with an matured vocal performance from Driver, delivering his elliptic lyrics and elaborate vocal melodies with a seasoned, sophisticated croon that's pretty easy on the ears, hitting some powerfully soulful notes all throughout the record that contrast beautifully with the band's stately, solemn prog. The sound of these six songs swirls with vintage celestial synthesizer tones and sparkling orbital electronics, the melodies shifting from airy, hallucinatory pop, darkwave-tinged moodiness and intense, atmospheric chamber music arrangements into swells of powerful, heart-wrenching heaviness, continuing to blend the band's heavy 70's progressive rock influences with Driver's uniquely convoluted gothic melodies, while the rhythm section of Keith Abrams (PAK, ex-Time Of Orchids) and Daniel Means underpins the music with constantly changing time signatures and dark, luxuriant grooves. Tracks like "Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22" turn surprisingly creepy, driving dreamlike prog shimmering with spectral, almost theremin-like melodies that in the latter half of the song begins to turn into something that wouldn't be out of place on a surrealistic horror soundtrack, and there's some lovely Rhodes piano playing from guest musician Tim Byrnes (PAK), who smudges several of these songs with his murmuring electronic keys, especially gorgeous on the languid, smoke-wreathed beauty of the closing track "Spirit Photography".
   Io is not without its moments of doom-laden intensity, either, like when the heavy, distorted bass begins to uncoil beneath the shimmering melody of opener "The Mortality Of Doves", joined by moody saxophone trills and a sumptuously psychedelic organ solo. Most of the metallic elements that marked earlier Kayo Dot releases have fallen away over the years, but the band still doesn't shy away from employing muscular riffage and more aggressive playing, a perfect example here being the sinister labyrinthine riffing that snakes wildly through "Library Subterranean", and the menacing gothic rock of "The Assassination Of Adam", while a portentous weight manifests throughout other tracks in the form of the ominous, often doom-laden bass figures. It's a gorgeous album, though, one of the best new prog rock records in recent memory, with the band continuing to perfect their dark, emotionally complex compositions and gloom-draped intricacies.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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