King in Yellow’s ‘Dark Passengers’ : Stark, Atmospheric Alt Rock
King Yellow’s music can be classified as new wave rock. Formed by friends and musical collaborators, Kyle McDonough and Nick Vining, it is driven by a passion for experiment, exploration, and boundless fusion. Its essence lies in creating a confluence of unseeming textures, unexpected rhythms, and spiking melodies. And even the themes that they explore manifest across blurred spaces, are best defined by abstractions, and colored absurdities. Their latest release is ‘Dark Passengers’, a four track EP that spills on the cerebral floors, evoking a psychedelic room, a contemplative labrinth, and a truly out of body experience. They are consuming soundscapes, so incredibly interesting and profoundly novel.
‘Lucid Dream’ opens the collection, and much like its title, it is veiled with a surreal occurrence. There is power in the rhythm but also a passivity. Fuzzy baritones rise through this, mystical storytelling forming somewhere between shadow, light and melancholy. And the electric streaks of guitar melody combined with vibrant riffs work up a textural storm that is sure to swallow you into its turbulent vacuum.
‘Dark Passengers’ absorbs the shadow accents of its predecessor and cultivates it with extraordinary drama, oblique theatrics and avant garde vocal chemistry. Each frame is so intensely absurd, connected by live wires of guitar motifs. It’s as if a great swarm of locusts are passing through. That’s how brimming the songs are. It overcomes the faculties, an indie rock overload with remarkable moments of instrumental hypnotics, shoegaze properties, and textural grandeur. You’ll see this coming out in ‘Hand in Fan’ and carries with a deeper density and depth in the next track, ‘Desire Path’.
Each track is as exhilarating, exciting, and addictive as salvation. The tracks reiterate the patterns of purging, elevating then to a whole new plane of sonic experience that is staunchly individualistic, contemplative in its own right, and experimentally affecting. Listen Now!
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