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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Kishi Bashi features influences of Brazilian jazz, 1970s funk, orchestral rock and Japanese city pop music.
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- Record Label: Joyful Noise
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Dance, Chamber Pop
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Sep 24, 2024“Escape from Knossos” is less than two minutes of skittering strings and thundering guitar, leading into “Icarus IV,” a thumping electro-rock banger. “Lilliputian Chop” is swirling saxophone-led disco. And “Analógico Brasil” is lounge-y jazz, proving that nothing is beyond the scope of an artist like Kishi Bashi.
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Sep 24, 2024Kishi Bashi is an artist of many influences and levels, but good things happen when things stay more direct on Kantos, clicking on a disco-based, new wave, funky vibe.
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Sep 24, 2024Just because it's fun doesn't make it a divertissement, as Ishibashi brings complex feelings to the table alongside some virtuosic genre exercises.
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Sep 24, 2024While there are moments where he undeniably soars, the overall demise feels down to a simple trajectory problem. The calculations are off, and as a consequence Ishibashi has found himself tangled in his own creation, being swept up by the wind, and dropping the grace he once emanated aplenty.
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Sep 24, 2024Kantos isn’t all bad, but it is his worst album yet. It’s somehow both too cluttered and more conventional at the same time, and the lyrics, while pretty most of the time, don’t hit as hard as they did on this record’s predecessor.