Kinlaw
gut ccheck
Bayonet Records
Before we get into the grit of Kinlaw’s latest release gut ccheck, let’s talk about the mindfuck and the video for “Spit.” The video is made exceptionally well. The way the camera spins around as Kinlaw shifts from place to place and position to position, sometimes at a frantic pace. Its uneasiness makes the visuals that much more appealing. It’s like taking a tic tac case full of acid and watch the shape shifters fuck with your mind.
“Spit” is not a bad song at all but compared to “Hard Cut” or the trap thirst of “Ride the Ride” there is no comparison. But take about five steps back and look at the album as an artistic whole, then “Spit” is necessary. The production is inspired by the senses and you can feel every component down to Kinlaw’s breath. But the agitpop, the seduction, and the science fiction wet dream was all bred out of silence. “I wanted to know what role the brain and the body played in how we hear, and I wanted to concentrate more on silence than how to fill it,” Kinlaw states.
Gut ccheck surrounds itself around movement. You feel the movement of ideas and the force of the song. Each piece contorts into a different angle of thought and as a choreographer, it all came together. For “Ride the Ride” she crawled around in anger and used release to construct the song on a different level.
Gut ccheck is not immediate. It’s an album that will grow in obsession. How dare you give it one listen. I walked away from it for weeks only to come back only to find myself deeper in the recesses of Kinlaw’s poetic drive. Experience throughout New York City’s art museums and interesting challenges has established an album of equal valor.
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