Kayo Dot – Plastic House On Base Of Sky LP

Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant-garde classical, Kayo Dot is experimental and often unclassifiable.

Plastic House on Base of Sky is Kayo Dot’s 7th full-length since the bands inception in 2003. Incorporating a variety of modern and vintage analog synthesizers, the band continue to embrace the electronic allusions found on their previous effort Coffins on Io.

Kayo Dot have created another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward-thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick.

A 40 minute-long, 5-song LP replaces the future-noir theme of Coffins on Io with an innovative, complex, and biomechanical work of art. Think seemingly impossible architecture, dead satellites, trashed space stations, wasted old lady heroin addicts hanging out by cheap motel pools, broken people, and a hopeless dead and polluted world transitioning into artifice and mechanism and reacting by being self-destructive, either to the point of utter obliteration or a glorious transhuman condition.

In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumber what other artists cover in a full album. For as much ground as they cover, it’s always in the service of a carefully curated mood and this is apparent on Plastic House on Base of Sky’s exploration of our mechanical post-human future-present.

Engineered at Strange Weather studios (Liturgy, DIIV, Modest Mouse) and mastered by Scott Hull (Sting, Bob Dylan, Steely Dan)

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