Head Like a Kite - Random Portraits of the Home Movie

Seattle’s always been a hotbed of rockers. Head Like a Kite falls into the category of those Pac NW-based successes. A musician (Dave Einmo) singing a song called “Your Butt Crack Smile” has got to be cool (a song reminiscent of Duran Duran’s “Medazzaland”) and cool they are. Einmo liked early-80s synth pop and the whole album is filled with unique, sometimes other-worldly, catchy melodies and rhythms, some of the tunes using sampled sounds from his family’s Super 8 home movies when he was a kid. All that said, the album has its thoughts on the past with an immediately enchanting present, pushing the Seattle music scene to, yes, the near future. [www.headlikeakite.com]