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Kayo Dot will play Saturday 19 September.

Kayo Dot is an experimental rock/modern composition ensemble currently based in New York City. They fuse folk and jazz in an avantgarde sort of way on their last album coming from a experimental metal background (as ‘maudlin of the Well’). They keep on inventing their music in new ways, without keeping a close eye on what everyone expects them to do. This attitude is admired by many, and rejected by others, according to the mixed reviews on their last album. This constant search for new things is exactly why Kayo Dot is on its place at Incubate 2009.

New Album is coming

Kayo Dot has arrived in Seattle to begin recording its second full-length release for Hydra Head Industries (Pelican). According to a press release, “The new music features another sonic shift in the ever-evolving sonic lexicon of Kayo Dot. Expect a more visceral rhythmic sound with overdriven chorus basses, cave-echoed horns, vocals and strings, tuned struck metal, and a purveying melodic darkness threaded delicately throughout the sound of the music. Once again, the album will be recorded by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth) who also recorded Kayo Dot’s critically acclaimed Hydra Head release from 2008, ‘Blue Lambency Downward’.” (source).