This Leicestershire based five piece will have to learn to live with their melodies being described as 'soaring' (like a Kite - geddit?) just as they will have to put up being constantly compared to Sigur Ros. They don't sing in Hopelandic but the similarities are inescapable.
There are plenty of worse bands they could sound like and for a debut release the album is remarkably assured maintaining a lovely, dreamy feel throughout the seven seamless tracks.
The blissed out ambient qualities make it perfect soundtrack material and 'Boundaries' has already been used in an HBO advert for 'The Sopranos'.
The mood it evokes is both calm and optimistic but the unhurried swells of sound and hushed vocals are so restrained there's a danger of the music disappearing a little too effectively into the background.
|
Although this is a sumptuous and engaging album, this breed of slow burning post-rock is already a very familiar one, there's a risk of KYTE painting themselves into a corner unless they can transcend their influences and forge their own identity.
Still, with an average age of just 20, time is on their side.
|
