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After a six-year hiatus, Seattle’s Kinski picks up more or less where Down Below It’s Chaos
left off, building monstrous constructions of riff and feedback,
repeating them to a Gnostic blur and layering on top some surprisingly
melodic vocal melodies. Cosy Moments moves slightly toward
pop-and-hook than the last Kinski album did, but more than maintains its
integrity as an outsized purveyor of aggressive guitar rock.
Over the last couple of albums, Kinski has made a
transition from a dynamic-switching, mostly instrumental, experimental
outfit – a peer of Bardo Pond and Acid Mothers Temple – to a more
accessible, though still blistering rock band. The transition took a
critical step in Down Below It’s Chaos with the addition of
vocals – that’s Chris Martin singing – a step which led the band
necessarily away from free-form, amp-torturing frenzies toward more
structured songcraft. The model, maybe, is Sonic Youth, one of the few
bands to balance experimentation and pop for any extended length of
time. On Cosy Moments, Kinski continues to funnel noise and
dissonance into surprisingly ear-friendly, easily grasped compositions.
Even the instrumentals – and there are four of them – feel fairly
tightly planned and structured.
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