…featuring exclusive bonus CD with four additional tracks.
The new record from Kayo Dot begins with an achy drone – think a tea-kettle whistle as filtered through the pump organ of some long-abandoned Gothic cathedral. “Day to night to following night,” frontman/primary songwriter Toby Driver growls at the record’s dawn, his voice alternately tortured and torturing as the drone glacially shifts. “I sit quietly, contemptuously/ Stalking myself.” And, later in the same song, the 11-minute-long affair that opens the group’s Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason LP, that sense of darkness and dread spreads like a stain: “Rusty garden shears cut through the weeds/ Growing over the grave,” Driver bellows, his consciously “evil”…