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The Kissaway Trail at 93 Feet East |
Contributed By: DeBastardz
Created On: Wednesday, 07 February 2007
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 The Kissaway Trail Stylistically the band are a mash-up. There are three electric guitars slung around the necks of three vocalists, Thomas Fagerlund, Søren Corneliussen and Daniel Skjoldmose. The tallest of these, whom we assume to be Thomas, sports a dandy looking pink cravat and hair that suggests styling is something he cares about. To either side of him, his two shorter accomplices are in t-shirts and by comparison look somewhat skanky.
No matter though when their guitars get going. Their sonorous, unhurried approach to creating musical mood is reminiscent strongly of Sigur Rós, though the vocals are in English. There are hints at post- and prog-rock, for those keen on pigeonholing, but neither adequately describes The Kissaway Trail's work.
One of the smaller guitarists by mid-set looked as though his entire body was being screwed up into ball as he let his passion for music show, to occasionally amusing effect. The cravat wearer was the very picture of cool by comparison, though he said next to nothing to the audience throughout the short set. Interaction, boys. We want to hear you speak and acknowledge we're in front of you. Drummer Hasse Mydtskov, head wedged into headphones to stage right, is possibly the best indie sticks man I've seen live since witnessing Sigur Rós. Shifting patterns of drumming even in mid-bar time and again, his work helps give the band a sound all of their own.
Later, during Aereogramme's self-important and interminable noodling, my thoughts were still on The Kissaway Trail. It's possible they'll be another of those Bella Union bands that sneak up from nowhere and become, by the end of the year, critical darlings. You wouldn't bet money against it anyway.
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