Video game start screen voices add to the virtualness of it all. As a child’s toy declares “The Kaiyote’s goes…,” out of the drift a gritty beat arrives–a jostling knock the likes of which have by now become the band’s signature cry.
With its THX-inspired aural bloom, the record’s title track is the sound of an adventure booting up. It’s also long and dense–70 minutes of grooves proffered at a breakneck rate that closes in simple beauty. Hiatus Kaiyote has diversified their song structures and tones in a very real way and, simply put, this is a record with much more in it.
Colorful rhythms once more abound, but this time they’re painted across a wider canvas. While the band’s central sense of groove is still intact, what Choose Your Weapon offers is a broadening of scope. Choose Your Weapon is not Tawk Tomoahawk, in a multitude of ways. Listeners with attachment issues should be forewarned that the new LP has a penchant for leaving a groove just as it seems to be settling in and on a number of tracks, especially in its first half, the shifts can become incredibly frustrating. It’s an ever-shifting work, packed with techniques borrowed from a certain progressive rock tradition that includes Yes and Rush as much as The Mars Volta and prog jazz the likes of Weather Report. After a 3 year wait, fans of Hiatus Kaiyote have finally been rewarded with Choose Your Weapon, the record on which the Australian four-piece opens up their sound into wildly varied new territories.
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