{"id":71519,"date":"2018-10-24T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=71519"},"modified":"2018-10-21T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T14:31:09","slug":"review-kagoule-strange-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-kagoule-strange-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Kagoule – Strange Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kagoule<\/b> don\u2019t seem like the kind of band that people would encourage you to visit their gigs on their premise that “it\u2019s gonna go off!”<\/i>\u00a0At the same time, there\u2019s enough firepower to their carefully crafted alt-rock that punters would find themselves in heavy motion at a live show without realising how it happened.<\/p>\n

2015 debut \u2018Urth\u2019<\/i> was a carefully crafted balance of meandering passages with scuzzed up flashes of distortion injected throughout, surmised in single \u2018Glue\u2019<\/i> <\/a>beginning as a swampy jam band session before metamorphosing into a confident anthem. On second full-length,\u00a0\u2018Strange Entertainment\u2019<\/i>, they\u2019ve continued this blueprint with affirmation.<\/p>\n

From a glance, \u2018Strange Entertainment\u2019<\/i> thrives off an effortlessly cool playing style, preferring to let compositions meander on \u2018Egg Hunt\u2019<\/i> and \u2018Too New Too Soon\u2019<\/i>. Even when these songs transform from lackadaisical bliss to hefty slabs of grunge-infused distortion, Cai Burns and Lucy Hatter keep their composure as vocalists that keep the track under control.<\/p>\n