![]() So I shouldn’t have been surprised to find Bender in a cave when I Skyped him. Which is why all four of the band members - Naomi ‘Nai Palm’ Saalfield (vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys) and Perrin Moss (drums) - are so keen on space creating the right conditions for cool ideas. Their music isn’t so much about faithfully documenting a song or musical ideas, it’s about building a virtual time and place for your ears. Hiatus Kaiyote want to take you places with their music. Me? I’d put it through a Space Echo, and use a mono tape version full of weird little ‘fuck-out’ tape aberrations. It’s so clean that it’s impossible to tell. I’m thinking, ‘I fucking hate how clean this is right now’! I mean, it could be the world’s most beautiful grand piano recorded in the world’s most beautiful room with million dollar microphones but it ends up sounding so good that it could just as easily be a sampled MIDI piano played in someone’s bedroom. I’ll be driving around listening to the radio and I’ll hear some really shiny pop song. ![]() “There’s one thing that trips me up sometimes. ![]()
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