Stream Kishi Bashi Lighght

Stream Kishi Bashi Lighght

What experimental musician Kishi Bashi does on his new album Lighght is summed up pretty well in its album cover. It looks like a Bruegel landscape that Kishi Bashi has crashed, his presence alone making everything around him warp and fracture like a really satisfying acid trip. With his music, Kishi Bashi does the same thing to the classical pedigree of the violin, looping it to a dizzying blur of kaleidoscopic glee. We recently premiered “Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!,” and that’s really just the first charge down a rollercoaster full of them. Between acoustic guitar strums, densely layered loops, and his dynamic vocals, Kishi Bashi bounces between campfire sing-alongs, hyper chamber pop, and what could be the soundtrack to some kind of interstellar merry-go-round, all with the heart-on-sleeve glee of Kevin Barnes on the happy side of unstable. Stream it now via NPR.

Lighght is out 5/13 via Joyful Noise. Pre-order it here.



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