Kudu

However cool you think you are, Kudu is like fifty times cooler.

Sometimes an album drops in your lap that you just have to stop whatever you are doing and listen. Kudu is this way. Whatever I was expecting was totally not what I got. But then how could you expect Kudu? What could have been a simple electro-rock album is simply not. Kudu did not take the easy way out. They created a masterful hodgepodge that does not reflect on the flavor of the month, but rather an eclectic blend of sounds and styles that seems to be honest to themselves alone. Like I said, Kudu’s Death of the Party could have been a simple electro-rock album and stopped there. But they went above and beyond with influences ranging from R&B to hip-hop to stripped down funk to pure pop to 60s girl groups to 90s dance to whatever. And while all these sounds could totally be juxtaposed against each other, Death of the Party never feels this way. There is unique synergy that just feels so natural.

Kudu is what N*E*R*D should have been, but was never successful at achieving.

Kudu – “Magic Touch”

Kudu’s Death of the Party comes out on Tuesday, March 16th. Unless you’re like in a coma there is no reason not to buy this album. Still early to say, but Death of the Party could easily be in my top ten albums of 2006. Definitely ones to watch in 2006.

Purchase: Amazon

Tourdates

Mar 11 2006 – nublu (XLR8R party) – New York, NY
Mar 13 2006 – Amoeba Records in-store – San Francisco, CA
Mar 13 2006 – MILK – San Francisco, CA
Mar 14 2006 – On The Rox (The Roxy upstairs) – West Hollywood, CA
Mar 15 2006 – Temple Bar – Santa Monica, CA
Mar 16 2006 – Club Seven – Dallas, TX
Mar 17 2006 – East Central Storage (2 am) – Austin, TX
Mar 17 2006 – Nasty’s Bar SXSW – Austin, TX
Mar 18 2006 – The public – Little Rock, AK
Mar 20 2006 – Spanish Moon – Baton Rouge, LA
Mar 22 2006 – The Orpheum – Tampa , FL
Mar 23 2006 – The Beta Bar – Tallahassee, FL
Mar 24 2006 – Surfcomber Hotel – Miami, FL
Mar 25 2006 – Studio A M3 Summit – Miami, FL
Mar 27 2006 – The Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA
Mar 30 2006 – the Five Spot – Philly, PA