The hair-raisingly fresh new single from the Fire Talk signees comes alongside the announcement of their self-titled debut EP, due for release in December.
Photo: Kit Ramsey | Words: Hazel Blacher
With grit that sucks you in and spits you back out, prickling over your skin in itchy swathes and pounding it back to a state of rattling equilibrium, 'Racing Man' is the latest intrepid cut from New York's Kassie Krut. Those already familiar with the recently disbanded Philadelphia experimental-rock group Palm will be acquainted with Kasra Kurt and Eve Alpert's boundary-pushing, explorative and ambitious compositional structures. Kassie Krut in its latest trio formation sees Kurt and Alpine collaborating once again, and enlisting third member Matt Anderegg, who was credited for production on Palm's 'Nicks and Grazes'. This time favouring more beat-driven textural oddities and bold yet musically uncluttered soundscapes, they thrust the same principles of innovation into the fizzing landscape of our current musical milieu.
Growing up in London's multicultural melting pot, formative exposure to the city's flourishing grime, dub and UK garage scenes are cited as key influences on this project, alongside other broader inspirations such as the industrial fused techno soundscapes of EBM and hyperpop's glitchy rhythmic velocity. Kassie Krut have recently joined the stacked roster of Brooklyn's Fire Talk records, and 'Racing Man' serves as the second single from their debut self-titled EP, announced alongside its release.
Pelting out the door with a brash, flouncing urgency, 'Racing Man' is braced with oscillating distortion and characterised by its blisteringly harsh beats and propulsive bass whomps, underpinned by Alpert's hypnotically soft and rhythmic vocal line that blurs in and out like a bright, translucent orb. In the resulting concoction, these dizzying, saturated elements coalesce with a zingy, effervescent commotion of spine-tingling whispers and additional coarse, metallic percussive elements (said to have been created using everyday found sounds). Making for a moreishly addictive seltzer of textural maximalism acidic enough to give you heartburn, listeners that are hungry for a genuinely new sound from the avant-underground will find that Kassie Krut are, without a doubt, an act to get excited about.
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