It’s also long and dense–70 minutes of grooves proffered at a breakneck rate that closes in simple beauty. Hiatus Kaiyote has diversified their song structures and tones in a very real way and, simply put, this is a record with much more in it. Following the release of the band's debut album Tawk Tomahawk (2012) and their first Grammy nomination, Hiatus Kaiyote went on to. The sophomore album from HK takes cues, much like their first album, from Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop, Funk + more but throws all conventions out the window and starts from the bottom. Choose Your Weapon is the second studio album by Australian neo-soul quartet Hiatus Kaiyote, first released in through Flying Buddha and Sony Masterworks. The complex, angular song structures beckon only to evade, bolting in unexpected directions just as they seem to settle into a groove. Choose Your Weapon’s interludes are less extensive than those found on Hiatus Kaiyote’s first LP, most likely because so many separate composed sections made their way into each song. Recorded during a heavy 2014 road tour in Australia and America, Choose Your Weapon was born. None of Weapon’s 18 tracks is as accessible as Tomahawk’s Grammy-nominated single “Nakamarra,” the closest Hiatus Kaiyote has come to approximating a traditional pop song, but that’s what makes the album such a leap forward. Hiatus Kaiyote’s sophomore release Choose Your Weapon is a smorgasbord, clocking in at nearly 70 minutes and brimming with ideas. The band’s music is such a fast-moving, shape-shifting target, reducing it to a pithy genre descriptor is a fool’s errand.
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.
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