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ARTIST
KAMM
TITLE
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FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CIRCUS COMPANY
CATALOG #
CCS 115LP
CCS 115LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2020
Following their debut album
Kick Drunk Love
(2016) for
Marcel Vogel
's Intimate Friends imprint, Circus Company present the next installment in the sporadic
KAMM
legacy:
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. Far more sonically rich and musically adventurous than its predecessor,
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sees the band make bold strides into new territories where classically hardwired categories such as jazz, indie rock, and electronica melt into one another with immaculate, timeless ease. The band members' positions are more clear cut as well this round, with
Marc David Barrite
(aka
Dave Aju
) on prominent lead vocals in many of the pieces,
Alland Byallo
on trumpet,
Kenneth Scott
on synth bass, and
Marc Smith
adding guitar sections while the others shared the arranging and programming duties. This makes for a deeper continuation of the otherworldly combination of their known individual production styles, as well as a musical whole truly greater than the sum of its parts. The set starts off with "Bird Call", whose opening ode to
Morricone
ok corral-meets-samurai showdown riffs flow into a loose and drifting psychedelic boom bap blip, building until a glorious change-up of key and energy brings the track to its peak and deconstructed back down. "Rachel, the Largest Bullfrog" then takes things in a sweeter, slightly more traditionally-structured direction where dusty indie-folk ballad vibes intersect with an array of twisted cosmic tones, bits of computer keyboard percussion, and deep rolling sub bass. "Buckle Down" then moves things back away from acoustic restraints into a beautiful synth-laden musing on potential regret, with an ultra-potent horn section from Byallo vs a nasty stacked Roland SH-101 finish. "CCBPGC" cools things off for a few minutes with an ambient field recording slice-and-dice motif, which slowly but surely evolves into a slinking jazz noir groove from another dimension. The more traditional song structures return on the lovely "La Luna", where Barrite's pen and soulful voice take to nautical longing themes over apropos waves of sonic textures. The ebb and flow of the verse/chorus sections eventually rise and give way to an absolutely gorgeous denouement. "Shleem" then takes us into pure unadulterated soaring sci-fi soundtrack ambient blast-off bliss, while the epic closing track "The Soft Glow of Electric Sex" gives a hearty nod to early masters of sprawling psychedelic jam sessions, from
Pink Floyd
and
Can
to
In A Silent Way
-era
Miles
and
Liquid Liquid
, while bringing it clearly into futurist millennia.
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