Google search вЂњHiatus KaiyoteвЂќ and вЂњPitchforkвЂќ and the second hit will be a feature published by the juggernaut music blog, вЂњThe Year In Music 2014: ContributorвЂ™s Top 10вЂ™s.вЂќ My personal contribution as an internВ was to place their spectacular EP cut вЂњMolassesвЂќ atВ the top of the tracksВ list (the first Google hit is another best of list from 2012). ItвЂ™s bloodyВ absurd, but half of PitchforkвЂs HK coverage is a result of nothing other than my own fandom. But still, I canвЂ™t shake a stirring sense of curiosity: How is this band notВ the biggest thing in music right now? The Pluto MoonsвЂ Zachary Levine-Caleb thinks itвЂ™s because Choose Your WeaponВ вЂњdoesnвЂ™t give a shit about the American Rock agendaвЂќ and because the group is oftenВ pigeonholed as a вЂќ jam band,вЂќ which couldnвЂ™t be further from the truth.ДЇor better or worse, Hiatus Kaiyote have evaded widespread critical reception. And I cherish the four-piece bandвЂ™sВ newly released full-length Choose Your WeaponВ dearly, frighteningly so, for this very reason. Consistently, IвЂ™m seducedВ by Melbourne, AustraliaвЂ™s experimental soul outfit expressly because they grant my mind such breadth, such freedom, theВ opportunity to relinquish the urge to make literal sense of what IвЂ™m hearing. Or rather, the allure of words fail to pique my interest.

I find myself at a loss for words when I confront the music of Hiatus Kaiyote.

Hiatus kaiyote choose your weapon