Kai Altair: Howl
I’ve heard Brooklyn’s Kai Altair described, recently, as being a “neo hippie pagan witch doctor goddess with a trip hop fetish”. Listening to “Howl”, from her forthcoming debut E.P. (dropping with an insane fantasmagorical launch party Nov 13th at House Of Yes, watch this space for more details), it’s possible to say that fits about 1/3 of what the song is. The rest is a twisted, dark, moody & atmospheric song that goes down like a love song but pricks and stings like a ballad of things lost. It reminds me, really, of the feeling I got the first time I heard the new Editors song and its sweeping chorus of “pour salt water on these wounds”, also begging and lost. It’s very possible you could play these two songs back-to-back, one after another, and get an entire story that happened sometime after midnight in a land that we mortals aren’t privvy to. It’s getting darker earlier, and colder more often, and is, in fact, a perfect time to howl.
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