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- Summary: The South African indie-rock band releases its first EP produced by Secret Machines' Brandon Curtis.
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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This strange, fascinating EP dramatizes the desperate fumbling for order amid chaos.
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A strong introduction to a band with unlimited potential.
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Mystery, a four-song warning shot of an EP, completes the cycle of hype. Duck and cover, y’all: Something wicked this way comes.
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With bands like Vampire Weekend so keen on appropriating the polyrhythmic thunder of their African peers, it's only fitting that these childhood friends should often sound like art rock sensations from Brooklyn.
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It's idea after idea after idea, and though TVOTR comparisons are as inevitable as they are fair, billing BLK JKS as the Brooklynite's more giddy cousins is perhaps a little off the mark: better to say both bands tap into the same ultra-distinct vein of murky sonic magic.
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Mystery has a jazz-fusion inspired structure, complete with waves of distortion, hectic-but-precise drumming, growling guitar accents, and layers upon layers of vocal blankets that push the music to teetering on the edge of chaos.
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Under The RadarTheir first offering isn't foolproof but presents enough noise to tide listeners over. [Spring 2009, p.75]
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