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MH-259 Head Like A Kite - There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere  There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere, Head Like A Kite’s second full-length album, and first for Mush, is an expert blend of electronic rock production and pure pop-songcraft built on a bed of pillaged found-sound from cities the band visited on their 2006 US tour. No stranger to sharing the stage with big names on national and international turf, ringmaster Dave Einmo has assembled some of Seattle’s finest for the album including members of The Long Winters, Smoosh, Radio 4, Crooked Fingers, and Preston School Of Industry. Whether it be guest vocals from Asya Smoosh and Graig Markel, added inspiration from touring drummer Trent Moorman, or the production of Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine) each track is flavored with the perfect additions to the epic songwriting and big-beat electronic production that is Head Like A Kite’s forte. There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere strikes the balance between art and craft and is the finest sonic road-trip in the Mush catalog. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Possibly the best release out of the Northwest this year - KEXP / A true genre-twisted party album that appropriately captures the sounds of an eclectic America - Urb / The dreamy soundtrack to your imaginary trip into space - The Stranger / Deserves a lot of indie play - Pop Matters / Friskiness is refreshing – AP |
| When, in “Six Bags of Confetti” the boys behind Head Like A Kite admit to stealing “your sister’s medication” and laughing “all night long”, we can not only believe them, but also assume it was the kind of party they had in mind while crafting the group’s sophmore release, There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere. This is, after all, party music—the kind of trippy, indie-electro-nu-gazing music you don’t actually hear until the morning after, while (as you should be) scourning the web for that crazzyyyy shit from last night. Their recipe—a mixture of straight rock n' roll tunes buried under layered synthesizers, topped with funk-guitar, drum machines and half-baked retro-futuristic vocal loops—cooks up the kind of lush, groovy, bass-heavy sound for which, in the past, we’ve celebrated the work of artists like Beck and LCD Soundsystem. With Loud Laughter, Sushirobo’s guitarist Dave Einmo, live drummer Trent Moorman, and their dynamic cast of musical associates take us in to the future, showing expertise in straight pop, electro-rock production, sprinkled with found-sounds borrowed from the cities HLAK visited during their U.S. tour in 2006. In the end, they serve up a true genre-twisted party album that appropriately captures the sounds of an eclectic America. - Urb |
