The complexity of Hiatus Kaiyote’s blue-eyed soul, which boasts layers of instrumentation and sonic details, only partially masks their rudimentary chord progressions and repetitive song structures. And despite the tonal and sensory aims of the band’s music—they’re clearly going for a kind of rapturous delirium—their lyrics are often silly and too earnest by half. All of this is more apparent than ever on the Australian quartet’s Love Heart Cheat Code.
For one, the arresting polyrhythms of “Telescope,” led by Perrin Moss’s spry drums and Paul Bender’s loping bass, are undermined by the decision to interpolate the Temptations’s iconic “My Girl,” as singer Nai Palm almost laughably wonders, “What can make me feel this way?/Is it kush? Or outer space?/And space is the place.” The song never gets past the vaguest intimations of the cosmic and the broadest of references to altered perception.
For one, the arresting polyrhythms of “Telescope,” led by Perrin Moss’s spry drums and Paul Bender’s loping bass, are undermined by the decision to interpolate the Temptations’s iconic “My Girl,” as singer Nai Palm almost laughably wonders, “What can make me feel this way?/Is it kush? Or outer space?/And space is the place.” The song never gets past the vaguest intimations of the cosmic and the broadest of references to altered perception.
- 6/24/2024
- by Charles Lyons-Burt
- Slant Magazine
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