Kinnie The Explorer -‘Kinnie The Explorer.’ (Alcohol Records)
Bournemouth’s Kinnie The Explorer exist in an interesting point. The influences here are primarily psychedelic (rather than psychedelica, trust me, there IS a difference), meeting a point where shoegazing and prog-rock all meet and collide.
Still with me? The above might sound rather hard to digest, but the sound that KTE produce is not.
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Over the course of their ten track debut album, the overall effect is actually rather gentle. I don’t know what they’re like live-but on record the feeling is of a band who are avant-rock, but not in the way that that normally suggests raw-as garage punk.
And the effect is a rather pleasant, dreamy one. A few listens to this record later, this has actually rather grown on me. It’s cleancut in sound -but that shouldn’t be taken as meaning that they are without any edge… an interesting listen and a challenge of your expectations.
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Kinnie The Explorer is out now on Alcohol Records.