KITES The Green EP CDR (Stone Premonitions)
Kites is another band featuring Steve Robson, along with Stone Premonitions co-founder Tim Jones (also of The Rabbit's Hat, Census of Hallucinations, and other projects), and various other artists. They make a sophisticated type of music that is not easily pigeonholed. Green starts off fooling the listener into expecting a kind of bombastic orchestral prog rock, then there are some ethereal choral style vocals, then when the song gets going it turns into a kind of laid-back folk-rock with synthesized strings and gospel-tinged backing vocals. Right Thing is synthpop meets bluesy, funky rock, with the (unusual for both of these genres) addition of accordion. A different version of Green completes the EP. The songs are conventionally song-structured, with a catchiness that is likely to appeal to a wide audience, but so musically diverse that they defy categorization.
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