Kayo Dot - Hubardo

This came out a few months ago and is available on spotify and via Bandcamp starting at $14. It's definitely the best Kayo Dot album since their first album. Everyone who likes experimental/weird metal and post rock and nontraditional rock/metal instrumentation and prog and Mr. Bungle, etc. should at least check it out and then buy the album if it pleases.

It's 100 minutes of madness and beauty, and it's completely overambitious, and but even if it's overambitious it hits some very incredible highs in those 100 minutes.

Please buy it if you like it. I think a few of you will like it.

http://kayodot.bandcamp.com/album/hubardo

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HUBARDO is the seventh studio album by veteran avant-metal maestros, KAYO DOT. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn0))), Master Musicians of Bukkake, etc.), and with a running time of almost 100 minutes, the music follows an epic and heartbreaking narrative of a meteor falling to Earth and its enchantment and alchemical transformation of a lonely poet.

HUBARDO, meaning "lantern" or "lamp" in the magickal language of Enochian, marks the band's tenth anniversary. As such, it features aspects of all the shades of KAYO DOT from the past decade, including some that even hearken back to the band's former identity, the progressive MAUDLIN OF THE WELL, such as the album's opening: a stark and disturbing guest vocal appearance by MOTW screamer Jason Byron - his first recorded appearance since 2001.

From weird metal to beautiful post-rock, from demented ballads to tripped-out 70s fusion, this double-album has it all. With HUBARDO, KAYO DOT have crafted an enormous masterpiece of 21st-century progressive music.

credits

released 30 August 2013
Toby Driver - bass, synths, piano, rhodes, organ, vocals, percussion. Ron Varod - guitars. Keith Abrams - drums. Daniel Means - tenor sax, alto sax, clarinet. Terran Olson - flute, alto sax, piano, organ, and synth solo on "Floodgate". Tim Byrnes - trumpet, horn in F. Mia Matsumiya - violin, synths. Jason Byron - guest vocal on "The Black Stone" intro. Randall Dunn - synth design. Jessika Kenney and BC Campbell - guest backing vocals.

Produced by Randall Dunn and Toby Driver at Avast in Seattle, WA, April 2013. Recorded and mixed by Randall Dunn. Assisted by Scott Cedarholm. Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering.

I'll check it out. I saw them live once when they opened for Pelican and I remember it being like a satanic church service or something with a cute Japanese girl playing the violin.

I like overambitious prog stuff that goes for broke and hits higher highs. Frances The Mute is one of my favorite albums.

Sweet! I love crazy overambitious prog styled stuff, so I'm down for this.