In the world of heavy music, few bands embrace dynamics and negative space like Kowloon Walled City. Since forming fifteen years ago, the band has increasingly refined it's deconstructed approach to noise rock, math rock, and doom, landing them on stages with similar boundary-pushing bands like Neurosis, Yob, Sleep, Sumac, and Thou.Now, with Piecework, the band's fourth album and first in six years, Kowloon Walled City reaches new levels of restraint. Songs are bleak and slow, but also shorter and more concise-seven songs clock in at about thrity minutes. There are stretches of near silence. While the band has always operated under the MO that less is more, it has doubled down on that ethos here.
Kappaleet:
1. Piecework
2. Utopian
3. Oxygen Tent
4. You Had a Plan
5. Splicing
6. When We Fall Through the Floor
7. Lampblack