Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos

by Andrew Dolton

The next stage in your musical evolution

"Musically it’s everything you’d expect Kinski to be. By equal turns it is beautiful, visceral, emotive and deconstructive. A broad kaleidoscope of sound that, at its peak, borders on piercing metal in a thunderstorm when you’ve forgotten your earplugs"

Music is very much an evolutionary thing. When you’re a kid you’ll pretty much listen to any old nonsense that you hear on whichever radio station your parents have generously tuned into. As you grow older, you start indulging in wild ideals like taste and opinion where you like some things and dislike others. And by the time you get to your teenage years, you will be more pretentious than is really required as you tell people you actually like Beefheart, that Zappa really speaks to you and that LP of Jim Morrison reading his poetry really was a necessary process.

Without such a transition, there is no way that certain genres of music would ever get listened to. Whether you call it space rock, post rock or noise rock or whatever you’re choice of genre label is, the instrumental rock genre is one such genre. Not the noodley bits and endless key changes of prog but simply as it stands; rock music without lyrics.

This is normally where Kinski would fit in but this time round something is different. This time round there is singing. In fact, they are missing out on a promotional idea as all the CDs should come with a sticker saying ‘featuring vocals by Chris Martin’. There are bound to be enough people who are so enveloped by their love of coffee table friendly tunesmiths Coldplay’s headhoncho that it would be like baying hoards trying to get hold of the album. This would all be before somebody pointed out that it’s not that Chris Martin. This one just happens to also be the lead guitarist of the band and we are not talking primary school comprehension rhyming tests as the main stimuli for the subject matter.

Musically it’s everything you’d expect Kinski to be. By equal turns it is beautiful, visceral, emotive and deconstructive. A broad kaleidoscope of sound that, at its peak, borders on piercing metal in a thunderstorm when you’ve forgotten your earplugs all the way to something a lot less distressing. Guitars, drums, flutes, sonic textures, pounding rhythms and an all round listening experience.

A listening experience is what it is. Yes, there are tracks but this is not a singles album, far from it. This album demands to be listened to from start to finish with every second nurtured and worshiped because that is how it was recorded. If you are ready, listen to it now or save it up for when your musical transition has taken you past telling people that Razorlight are musical revolutionaries.

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