Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Jay-Z have all sampled songs from this Melbourne musical quartet.
and Beyonce and Jay-Z have all sampled songs from the Melbourne quartet. They’ve been up for Grammy Awards three times, becoming the first Australian group to be nominated in the R&B category. And they’ve been lauded by the likes of Erykah Badu, Questlove and the late Prince.So, apart from those in the know, how can they still be something of a cult band in their own country? Part of it probably has something to do with their genre.
When you learn that they played their very first gig in 2011 at a masquerade ball that also featured sword swallowers, fire twirlers and gypsy death core bands, it kind of makes perfect sense. They work with odd time signatures, glitchy rhythms, loopy atmospherics and liquid instrumentation. So, no, you can’t put Hiatus Kaiyote in a box, least of all their lead singer, Naomi Saalfield, who goes by the appropriately explosive stage name Nai Palm. Her striking appearance of tribal-meets-anime facial piercings and Egyptian-meets-Kabuki style make-up, is echoed by her gymnastic vocals, which soar, slide and swoop at unexpected moments.was made at a particularly difficult time. For a start – the pandemic.
It’s telling that a song about the simple act of walking around in a great mood while listening to music through headphones), and a song about classical composer Dimitri Shostakovich, who allegedly heard atonal melodies because of shrapnel that had lodged itself in his brainThere’s no doubt that the band, which includes bassist Paul Bender, drummer Perrin Moss and keyboard player Simon Mavin, is so musically adept that it borders on the precocious.
At times you’re reminded of arguments about Steely Dan, whose fans lionise them as the ultimate in studio perfection, consummate musicians who built a bridge between jazz and rock, and detractors pillory them as bloodless muso-bores who are too clever for their own good and play too many chords.does find them baring more soul and exhibiting more heart, even as they continue to be intent on bending things out of shape.
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