Album Rating: 4.0

Tell them we're willing to offer a 4.5 on sputnik in exchange.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Can there please be an optional version where all vocals in all songs are auto-tuned and hip-hop like in An Eye for a Lie?

I'm not even joking, it's far more interesting than the edgy-hushed-whispering-Toby-ASMR

Album Rating: 4.0

Also can you tell them if the next album is all giggling gremlin ASMR a la the end of Psychobells we are willing to go all the way up to 5.

Man, these are some solid deals.

Album Rating: 4.5

I love how divisive people are about Eye for a Lie. I'm in the camp for it being the best song on the album. I mean come on, the appeal of Kayo Dot isn't that they have a particular sound, its that they're always changing their sound. Auto tuned hip-hop vocals that blend into a black metal crescendo with a Jeff Buckley-esqe vocal performance leading up to the end of the track? That's some fucking Kayo Dot shit right there.

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean it technically is literally some Kayo Dot shit.



I love Eye for a Lie in every way except for the auto-tune and how overtly idiomatic of hip hop and r&b the staccato vox interjections are handled. Formally it's an interesting move to bracket that incredible climax, which is very much of human passion and sinuous, with contrastingly synthetically textured and staccato vocals. For being so different from everything else it seems to extrude that climactic sequence up off the surface of the rest of the album and that's very cool. I just personally can not do auto-tune. I've never heard it used in a way that I didn't totally hate. If it were my album I would have opted for a different treatment in that one particular spot that does functionally the same thing, but I'll keep listening and processing it. If anyone could change my mind about auto-tune it's KD, but it hasn't happened yet.

Album Rating: 4.5

Toby said it's not auto tune and it's a different effect altogether fwiw

Album Rating: 2.5

autotune has been around since the 90s, perhaps earlier. it can be done good or bad. here it makes for one of the most ethereal tracks on the album, imo.

Album Rating: 3.5

its a neat sounding part and I think it adds a lot to the song

Album Rating: 4.0

BeeRyan Is that right? Some kind of vocoder thing? Where did you hear that?

Album Rating: 4.5

Even though the source of the comment hasn't been confirmed yet, I'm now inclined to believe that a vocoder would be the most likely possibility rather than auto-tuning.



If there's one thing that's generally consistent about Kayo Dot as a project its that Toby is pretty firm on writing music that can be performed live. I'm not personal familiar with the use of auto-tune during live performances but I have seen vocoders used frequently, so maybe that's how he achieved the effect.

Album Rating: 4.0

Other than that anyway, this is gooooooooood. Right now I can't get over that sequence that drops a few mins into Vanishing Act. It's like drawing the roofline of a spire tipped vista, and then a new scene explodes out of the highest peak, and those dissonant jazzy little key moves chipping away at the corners... So many interesting and fantastically awkward shapes there. Every part of that is perfect and inimitably Kayo Dot. Awesome. Fucking awesome.

Album Rating: 4.0

Winter skeleton fingers? In MY raging Q'th?



It's more likely than you think.

Album Rating: 4.5

He said it wasn't autotune in a Fb comment somewhere. Dig through the blasphemy promo posts to find it

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Listened to this again earlier today, feeling I was gonna bump it up, but then I realized:

The drumming in this album is really dull

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Like, it's only just occurred to me how nondescript it is

Bring back Keith Abrams

Album Rating: 3.5

lmao @ people thinking the effect on Eye for a Lie was autotune

Album Rating: 4.5

I can't find the comment he made about it but yeah

Album Rating: 4.0

Cool, thanks Bee, I believe you. Gotta be a vocoder then.



"lmao @ people thinking the effect on Eye for a Lie was autotune"



I mean... about as big a gaffe as mistaking chorus for phaser, nbd. They're similar effects. Anyway, with egg on my face, I append my prior statement to include that I fucking hate vocoders too. Hate them all the way from Kraftwerk to Herbie Hancock, to Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Boards of Canada, Dre, Daft Punk, Ultravox, to Cynic and everywhere in between.



Both autotune and vocoders can suck my whole ass.