Kyte - Kyte

Kyte have arrived with a hugely promising album which certainly bodes well for their future, as well as ours. Hailing from the mean streets of Leicester, they thankfully don’t come beating the same drum as Kasabian.

This is so unbelievably epic and colossal that it will blow the flesh off your bones if you stand too close to the speakers. The mammoth soundscapes are like standing on cliff-tops watching the waves crash against the rocks below, or standing alone in the arctic watching the earth split in two and giant blocks of ice crash into the sea.

Think Sigur Ros, Maps, or other purveyors of giant uplifting slabs of grandeur, with a bit of Postal Service thrown amongst the mix. Kyte manage to find the perfect middle ground between ambient, electronica and pop with seven tracks all offering something different.

Planet opens the album, seeing Kyte at their most majestic. Released as a single, it’s seven or so minutes of watching the sky crash down around you, quite the opposite to the shoegazing, or ‘nu-gaze’ that Kyte are being labelled with by the popular press.

Second track Boundaries was used last year in the adverts for the final series of The Sopranos, and it’s quite easy to see that the rest of the album could also find its place in adverts or the soundtrack of a film due to its accessibility and atmospheric quality.

Altogether a splendid debut, expect more in the future from this exciting new band.

4/5


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