Hesitation Wounds Kurt Vile the Knife

Short an' sweet Rookie of the Week comes from Deathwish Inc. dream team, Hesitation Wounds. Their moniker sets a fallacy for the frantic standard of songwriting that's anything but hesitant. Calling them rookies would also qualify as an inaccuracy since Jeremy Bolm, Neeraj Kane, Jay Weinberg and Stephen ‘Scuba' Lacour, coincidentally the sibling to Ken Mode bassist Andrew Lacour, fills out their roster sheet. This quartet does in 10 minutes what some screamo/hardcore/whatever bands don't accomplish in 80 minutes:write cohesive songs without desperately clutching to a refrained half-time or sputtering out of control with red- and white-striped burdening technicality. No hesitation for pinning earnest ethos to their cuff, which doubles as a high dive launching succinct scalding skaldship. Ten minutes left on that TPS report deadline, cram this audio fuel into yer brain dome.Last names are funny sometimes. When you have a last name like I do that doesn't really suggest a desirable, and literal, personality trait, one can work to transform a name into a personable antithesis. Kurt Vile does this, and rather than vile, describing Walkin' On A Pretty Daze necessitates a luminous response.
I'll admit I'm late to this party since Kurt has obviously experienced an overwhelming positive reaction to his cheery Clinton era lo-fi pluckin' and singin'. Overall Kurt kindles a relatable, hearth-held flame stoked over songs that vary in length from three to over 10 minutes. A-class productivity music and conducive to any intimate bedroom (pop) situation.Increasingly peculiar Swedish plague doctor impersonators The Knife continue to shake, not break, habits. Shaking The Habitual perpetuates the same emphasis of multi-sampled madness the duo has established for themselves. Organizations travel from and between spooky, to minimal, to dance-inspiring, to goofy, to pop and back to goofy. Some portions may grate on the ears of those not used to excessive boundary punishment through high-pitched repetitions, but most agonizing passages are short-lived and serve as audible garnish. The aggressive whispering really gets me going, especially when it's surrounded by three different percussive counter rhythms that unearth a gradual, and screwed, refrain. Fans of any echelon of electronic music will want to give this a try, or if you like music that your average person describes as"too weird."