The beauty of black and white photography is within the simplicity; eliminating hues, and splashes of vibrant distraction. Confident, candid, a naked body unsoiled by insecurities – that’s what Kilo Kish music sounds like, black and white simplicity. She’s captivating without complexities, a master of haiku imagery and fearless of conventional standards. Her background is cultured in the arts; music is just another medium incapable of escaping her natural prowess for creating. There’s no scheme for riches, no plot for industry domination, she creates with the freeness of a garage band before facebook, a poet before tumblr, a photographer before instagram, art for self.
“Across” sounds like an Analog girl stuck in Mark Zuckerberg’s society, no longer satisfied with vicariously living in a digital prison. Adventure awaits, wanderlust calls, a world to be explored exist outside of wall post and retweets. The soft spoken vocalist attaches themes of love, youth, and confusion with bohemian escapism. “Though I lie awake, I can’t sleep, look at all the time we’re wasting, push these, fucking endless keys”, each song has an undertone of sadness, the blues are sung with tender melancholy. Social media withdraws our priceless time, the front facing camera steals our souls, this is the digital age and it is sad.
There’s only one passenger aiding Kilo during this 8 song journey, producer Caleb Stone. His production is the gas money that keeps their voyage in motion; lush atmospheres blanket around mellow vocals complement each other like gram crackers and marshmallows. There’s magic in their union, a well-oiled marriage before adultery pisses on their vows. I notice a cohesiveness that K+ was missing; Kilo finds her zone within this soundscape, makes me believe Caleb is the Chad Hugo to her Pharrell, DJ Mustard to her YG, The Roots to her Erykah Badu. I see their short road trip taking me well into the winter months.
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