Choose Your Weapon

Melbourne, Australia’s Hiatus Kaiyote describes its sound as “future soul,” which is vague, inert language, but it’s hard to blame the four-piece funk outfit. The band’s music is such a fast-moving, shape-shifting target, reducing it to a pithy genre descriptor is a fool’s errand. With its 2012 debut album Tawk…

In some ways -- literally, for example -- Choose Your Weapon is twice the album.

Melbourne, Australia's Hiatus Kaiyote are equal parts exploratory and tuneful when it comes to their unique "future soul" sound. The Grammy-...

Music Review: Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon

Melbourne’s Grammy-nominated future soul outfit are back but just when their mesmerising second album settles into a groove, it spins off into 20 others, writes <strong>Everett True</strong>