Considering technological evolution, musicians have found mastery in recording and producing more tangible than ever. This is evident when glancing at the abundance of electronic music present today, and one could assume much of it to have been made on a laptop within a day or so. The electronic variety has also sprouted a cornucopia of subgenres both applicable and ill-defined, but each of which carrying artists who have found their own niche audience to cater for. Achieving stature has never been simpler.
Enter Minnesota trio Skoal Kodiak, the antithesis embodying the struggle to grasp definition. Like Mindflayer and Neon Hunk before them, Skoal Kodiak are electronic music for the Load Records listenership-- a spirit lost somewhere between dysfunctional punk tumult and cocaine-inspired grooves. Their debut Kryptonym Bodliak is a massive assemblage of aggressive psychedelic whimsy. Even when attributing the band to the minuscule subset of noise-informed dance they're abidingly one in a million.
Skoal Kodiak concisely shell seven blusterous boogies across 35 minutes, equipped with bass, drums, and paramount knob-twiddling. Opener "Teapot" exploits a funky drum lilt punctuated by slippery gadgetry and electro-damaged vocal yowls, and its successor "Hollidazzle" applies this configuration to a tune perceivably from the vault of the late and great Mayyors. As much as Kryptonym Bodliak is inherent in peculiarity, "Tomah Triangle" raises eyebrows by its aberrant tunefulness of a haunting keyboard refrain and harmonic chorus.
Each of Kryptonym Bodliak's tracks deserves its own helping of appraisal. With unfaltering kinetic force Skoal Kodiak explore every avenue of their dynamic; an undertaking justified for an outfit six years active. Unlike their aforementioned predecessors, Skoal Kodiak array a more congenial employment of riotous circuitry, fulfilling their shortage of patience at album's length. In challenging the merits of most debuts, the band showcases an unmistakable and elastic design to their complexion while bearing little to no foibles.
[Skoal Kodiak Myspace]
[Buy Kryptonym Bodliak from Load Records]
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