King Midas Sound & Fennesz – “Waves”
King Midas Sound is a side-project group that includes Kevin Martin, better-known as the eardrum-rupturing dance-music traveler the Bug, alongside the singers Roger Robinson and Kiki Hitomi. They’ve released a couple of albums, but they’ve never done anything as ambitious as the project they just announced: A series of four new albums, each of which will team them up with a different collaborator. First up: Edition One, which matches the group up with the Austrian ambient/experimental producer and guitarist Christian Fennesz. Fennesz’s washes of bliss might make a strange match for King Midas Sound’s anxiety vibes, but the two moods mesh in interesting ways on the seven-minute “Waves,” the first track we’ve heard from the new album. Below, listen to “Waves” and look at the album’s tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Mysteries”
02 “On My Mind”
03 “Waves”
04 “Loving Or Leaving”
05 “Melt”
06 “Lighthouse”
07 “Above Water”
08 “We Walk Together”
09 “Our Love”
Edition One is out 9/18 on Ninja Tune.