Hello cunts. I'm on a progressive/weirdness in music kick, and I've been reading about how fantastically strange these guys were (broke up a few years ago).

Does anyone know them or the band they became, Kayo Dot?

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my roomate knows those dudes<from kayodot>,they are from worchester, mass which is closeby, ive heard a few tracks, pretty good

Kayo Dot is fucking nuts, I like 'em.

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Maudlin is kind of a experimental doom band, but they're no match for Kayo Dot. Kayo Dot has been one of my favorite bands since the moment I heard them and I still, on a normal week, give both their albums one or two spins . If you want KD's two albums, contact me and I'll send them over pronto. If anyone is planning on checking them out themselves, I suggest their first album "Choir of the Eye". Its heavy, its ambient, its moody, its orchestrated, its angry, its absolutely great stuff. They incorporate strings and brass into their music, too. Toby Driver makes some weird stuff.

It's really difficult to define them, but John Zorn's label did a good job:"Kayo Dot powerfully integrates elements of modern classical composition with the layers of guitars and vocals more common to rock and metal. With a compositional map that is strict in form yet malleable in execution, Kayo Dot uses a vast array of instrumentation to create an exciting convergence of violence and serenity." It's only really metal in isolated sections, and evades genres as quickly as it sets them. You've really got to see for yourself.

I just recently saw them live. Amaaazing preformance! I didn't think it'd be possible to re-create their atmosphere live, but they did. The drummer composes while he plays, too.

http://www.kayodot.net/mp3/wayfarer.mp3 (this track breathes of a more relaxing, tranquill aura)
http://www.kayodot.net/mp3/manifold_curiosity.mp3 (this track starts similar, but ends in a maelstrom of screaming guitars and vocals.)

http://www.kayodot.net/

If you really want to hear some progressive-weirdness, check out Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, which is also superb stuff. Imagine operatic avante-garde metal incorporating heavy percussion and child rhymes.

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I love you Dyldo, I hope you know that.

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Maudlin Of The Well is awesome, I love there album "Leaving Your Body Map" - I have never heard Kayo Dot though, I'll have to check them out

Edit: Just listened to the songs Darko posted... and all I can say is amazing.

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I need to listen to those songs later on.

I agree with this man. Listen to StGM, NOW!!!!

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I have now listened to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Some day, I will die confused, but happy.

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