Head Like A Kite

Breaking down beats seems as natural to HEAD LIKE A KITE's Dave Einmo as breaking down genre barriers. On HLAK's new May 10, 2010 full-length, Dreams Suspend Night, blip beats dance around meaty analog synths and mischievous guitars, while HLAK drops the vocal hook bombs. Guests like Boom Bip (Neon Neon), Her Space Holiday, Asya of Smoosh, and members of The Long Winters, Saturday Knights and Swervedriver fuel the party. And what a party it is. In a two-step process that begins with challenging pop songwriting and serpentine playing, Einmo ultimately becomes a manic-DJ chopping and slicing on his own material and peppering it with field recordings made while traveling the US and Japan on tour. The result sounds like a joyride of timeless pop songs blaring from your car radio, while an electronic Krautrock band destroys the club you’re passing and hip-hop simultaneously pounds out of the Jeep breathing down your neck at the light. “If I had only one word to describe the album, I’d choose “festive,” says Einmo. “This record captures my enthusiasm for recording live instruments and then deconstructing the songs into electronic-pop bliss.”