American duo Kinsella & Pulse, LLC release today their album Open in Night via Kill Rock Stars. Their music contains some of the most forward-thinking postmodern pop of the past decade. Open ing Night, follows 2023’s acclaimed Giddy Skelter and delivers a tantalizing left turn that finds the maverick experimentalists’ restless imaginations and formidable skills undiminished.
While the carefully crafted audio mosaic Giddy Skelter showcased the duo’s innovative production and skillful sound design, Open ing Night offers listeners a more natural perspective. The fruits of this strategy can be heard, in particular, throughout the entire first half of the album, a five part suite recorded in one uninterrupted take that plays more like a well-curated DJ set than a traditional album side.
Kinsella & Pulse, LLC arrived at this approach following a four month tour across the US and the UK abetted by multi-instrumentalist Theo Katsaounis, who had performed alongside Kinsella in Joan of Arc. Fresh from the road, the band de-camped to Sudestudio studios in southern Italy, taking full advantage of the studio’s collection of vintage gear and instruments.
Upon returning to their hometown of Chicago, the band reconnected with longtime collaborator Cooper Crain at the famed Electrical Audio to record additional tunes for the album and add overdubs to the Sudestudio tracks, inventively using the studio to pay homage Steve Albini’s iconic drum sound by re-amping their Roland drum machines through speakers.
Open ing Night is the sound of three decades of post punk, underground dance music, and the avant garde culminating in a singular vision of smart, mutant pop, adding to a continuum that runs from David Bowie and Sylvian all the way to Shudder To Think and Gang Gang Dance. Imagine if SST-era Sonic Youth had been influenced less by Glenn Branca and the Ramones than by Juan Atkins and The Residents. Such is the intoxicating and irresistible duality of Kinsella & Pulse, LLC, who, with Open ing Night, deliver their finest work to date.
The duo will tour Europe beginning April 20 in support of the iconic band Karate.
Do not miss them!
April 20 — Munchen, DE — Strom
April 21 — Vienna, AT — Arena
April 22 — Graz, AT — Forum Stadtpark
April 23 — Budapest, HU — A38
April 25 — Prague, CZ — Meetfactory
April 26 — Dresden, DE — Jazzclub Tonne
April 27 — Berlin, DE — Festsaal Kreuzberg
April 28 — Malmö, SE — Plan B
April 29 — Copenhagen, DK — Loppen
April 30 — Hamburg, DE — Hafenklang
May 01 — Groningen, NL — Vera
May 02 — Münster, DE — Gleis 22
May 03 — Den Haag, NL — Paard
May 04 — Eindhoven, NL — Effenaar
May 05 — Köln, NL — Gebäude 9
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