K.I.T are a super-melodic experimental rock band from Oakland, California. They play very fast, short, defiant songs that fuck with the ideas of pop music. Maybe they'll start off playing a song straight - sweetness and light abounds - but before you know it everything gets flipped on its head and chased into chaotic abstraction. K.I.T songs can typically embrace hardcore rush, pop verse, jagged noise and cheer rally, all within the same moment - nothing but raw positivity and instinctive songwriting holding it all together.

K.I.T are Kristy (vocals / yelps), Steve (guitar / thrashing), VC (drums / freakouts) and George (guitar / feedback). Said members also perform in XBXRX, Lil' Pocketknife, Hawnay Troof, Snowsuit*, Warbler, DJ Shitbird and Boxleitner. To date the band have released three split 7" singles, one with LA post-hardcore group WIVES (PPM, 2003), one with weirdo-pop kindred spirits Deerhoof (Narnack, 2004) and one with Captain Ahab & Rose for Bodhan (Hug Life, 2005). All sold out rapidly on the back of the band's wildfire live shows and word of mouth.

'BROKEN VOYAGE'

Star Sign | Forest

UTR008 | Digipack CD / LP | 11 tracks, 22 mins | 9 Apr 2007 | Buy

'Broken Voyage' is K.I.T's debut full-length about adventure, secrets, escape and the night. The album is an energetic blast of innovation and fun, with songs running in unpredictable yet ever electrifying directions. "Fixed Compass" is a hyperactive call-to-arms of gang chants and gnarly guitar duelling, which builds to an explosion only to regroup with slowly unfolding carnage. "Coast Of Arms" is a queasy seasick rampage, punctuated with a frantic drum breakdown and an urgent vocal from Kristy - a barrage of punked noise which descends into spectral electronic oddness, before triumphantly seizing the party pulse once more.

K.I.T don't stand on ceremony, they make their point, move on, then make another point, always with an intrepid sense of discovery in the heart of their sound. 'Broken Voyage' is an album of juxtaposition and invention, as surprising as it is involving - an incredible genre-leaping debut from a band on a mission to startle the life back into music.