LP - KILL DEVIL HILLS - MATANGO!

The sixth studio album, 'Matango!, its title referring to
the 1963 Japanese psychological horror film of the same
name (directed by Godzilla/kaiju maestro Ishiro Honda)
by Australian band The Kill Devil Hills is out on Bang!
Records!
New album has ten songs, that - according to the band's own
words - "entwined in the lyrics are inferences of global unrest and
displacement, near future scenarios, climate catastrophe,
pandemic vortices, the Simpsons, the grace of women, refugees
and boat people, Cold War paranoia, the creative process itself,
and of course Australia and its peculiar place in things". Cheery
stuff, no? A strange and sinewy beast of an album, it's something
of a departure from earlier KDH work: minimal, leering with
glitching drums samples, synth swells, empty spaces, and a soup
of fat bass tones to float it all in. From the opening ghost radio
hums of Survivor Guilt, to the entrancing closing whispers of violin
on Weigh of a Woman, this album goes on a pretty strange and
serpentine journey. Enjoy listening, as much as we have enjoyed
making it.
TRACKLISTING: 01. SURVIVOR GUILT 02. THIS IS KARRAKATTA
03. THE DAY THE DINOSAURS DIED 04. PRESCRIBED BURNS
05. ATOMIC KITTY 06. PATRICIAN FACADE 07. UNLIKE HEMINGWAY
SAID 08. THIRTEENTH SUNDAY 09. NEW ORDOS 10. WEIGHT OF A
WOMAN