Hiatus Kaiyote Are Back With New Album Choose Your Weapon

The Grammy-nominated Australian band have just released their latest album, Choose Your Weapon.

Contest details below

A mix of soul, poetry and polyrhythms, the music of Hiatus Kaiyote is in a lane all by itself. The 18-track, 70-minute album is a journey through the group’s self-created ecosystem, populated with songs each embodying its own mini-cinematic sonic soundscape. The album is the follow-up to their 2013 debut album Tawk Tomahawk. The band will tour in 2015, including a North American Tour this spring.

“Making an album is like tearing your soul apart and gluing it back together, but new and improved, with anti-gravity rooms, glitter cannons, lasers and vast canyons of exotic animals,” notes Nai Palm (vocals/guitar). “I feel like that is expressed in the overall sound of the record, having four people essentially create what they think new universes and soundscapes should look like. There’s a lot of juxtaposition, but if you make something from your heart and a pure place of imagination, it tends to find a way to work out perfectly. Collaboration means your ideas evolve to be even more wonderful then your singular brain could have ever imagined.”

“Everyone who has come in contact with our music has promoted it,” says Nai Palm. “Questlove, Erykah Badu, Pharrell and Prince have gone out of their way to plug the band. There’s been so much support from the community of musicians locally and internationally. As a musician, that’s what it’s about.”

Track listing:

Choose Your Weapon
Shaolin Monk Motherfunk
Laputa
Creations Part One
Borderline With My Atoms
Breathing Underwater
Cicada
Swamp Thing
Fingerprints
Jekyll
Prince Minikid
Atari
By Fire
Creations Part Two
The Lung
Only Time All The Time/Making Friends With Studio Owl
Molasses
Building A Ladder

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How to enter the contest – read this! Enter now – just answer a question – Why do you want THIS album? This next part is important: Put your answer in the “Message” field of the online entry form! If you don’t do that, you won’t win. Click on this sentence to enter the contest. Contest ends on June 21, 2015.

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