Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 21 Dec, 2006.

Lastly on this alarming noisy label are KAYO DOT & BLOODY PANDA with a split LP. Previously starring on Tzadik, The Dot take up side 1 with slowly unfurling epic lounge rock from another galaxy. There's a seriously sinister swarm of satanic jazz ravens chuntering on under what initially sounds a bit like the Dismemberment Plan & Radiohead doing an orchestral ballad in a Witches coven. I wouldn't listen to this album on my own. It's the work of Beelzebub I tell thee. really, this is drifting post rock over some of the scariest atmospherics i've heard on wax...... Unfortunately Brian never finished this review as he was taken ill.... I wouldn't want to finish it off for him as that would be morally wrong

Boston’s Kayo Dot, with albums on Tzadik and Robotic Empire, cover a vast and mostly indefinable ground, with everything from orchestrated epic jazz to noise and doom thrown into the mix. Their 11 minute track was recorded for, and is excusive to, this release. New York’s Bloody Panda contribute two tracks (19 minutes) that combine funeral sludge with female chanting and Eastern influences to create something utterly menacing but at the same time completely enthralling. Comes on marbled vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, with incredible artwork by Toby Driver of Kayo Dot.

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