Grammy-nominated outfit Hiatus Kaiyote have today announced their new album, ‘Love Heart Cheat Code’, out June 28th via Ninja Tune/Brainfeeder.
Alongside the album reveal, the band share new single ‘Make Friends’, the second offering following previously-released single ‘Everything’s Beautiful‘. ‘Make Friends’, the final unscripted addition to the album, is a slice of kaleidoscopic funk celebrating unseen friends and communal bonds.
“I wanted to have representation for the different examples of people that I love from the women in my life, to the men, to my non-binary friends,” bandleader Nai shares, “and it was very natural and fun to work on as a formula.” The single is composed of one verse, filtered throughout with three gender permutations: female, male, and nonbinary. Nai adds: “When I sang the third verse, the ‘them/they’ verse, I actually had to stop. Just realising that inclusivity is so often denied to some of the people that I love the most, my best besties.”
‘Love Heart Cheat Code’ is looser and more improvised than previous projects, less beholden to structure and conventional wisdom: it’s a sonic snapshot of four musicians jamming together. Of the album experience, Nai shares: “I’m a maximalist. I complicate fucking everything. But the more you go through things in life, you become more relaxed and uninhibited. Sometimes you can still have depth and reach people and really stop dancing around the fact: What do you want to communicate to people? And I feel like this album is a result of that clarity for us. We didn’t need to spell out complexity if the song didn’t call for it.”
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Tracklist
1. Dreamboat
2. Telescope
3. Make Friends
4. BMO is Beautiful
5. Everything’s Beautiful
6. Dimitri
7. Longcat
8. How To Meet Yourself
9. Love Heart Cheat Code
10. Cinnamon Temple
11. White Rabbit
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Photo Credit: Rocket Weijers
