The final instalment of Audio Antihero’s 2011 EP series brings us the charming and cheerful tunes of Fighting Kites & Broken
Shoulder with their release ‘Split’. It’s arty, it’s instrumental, it’s everything we’ve come to expect from the label that has brought the likes of Benjamin Shaw, Jack Hayter, and not forgetting Broken Shoulder’s previous release back in March. This time we have a four piece line up founded by Broken Shoulder’s Neil Debnam consisting of guitars, drums and electro keyboards.
The sounds they manage to produce with this mix are simply harmonious, inducing a wistful coma of comfort. To release a purely instrumental 7 track EP is ambitious, let alone dangerous, and yet the combination of musicians presented to us suddenly makes everything safe again. It’s a comfort to know bands can still get away with experimenting.
Listing Sonic Youth and Mogwai as just a few of their influences, Fighting Kites take from a range of sounds and effects to create the overall accomplishment we’ve been graced with. If all this isn’t enough, the wonderful Benjamin Shaw has also mastered the EP himself. Have a listen and be lulled into a world of synthetic sound and multi-layered noise.
‘Split’ is released by Audio Antihero on the 10th October. For more information visit
