Kinski - Airs Above Your Station
Reviewed by erun
Do you like waiting for the...ball...to...drop...? Then Airs Above Your Station is the album for you. It's atmospheric and transdescent and...calm. This album is the epitome of the situation of trepidation: You gotta wait for your guitar, you gotta wait for your vocals... It's almost eleven minutes before you actually hear someone speak, and then you've got to wait for an infentesimal amount of time before you hear words again. The cover art of Kinski is the most tell-tale foreshadowing of what you're getting into- Stripey, segmented pictures. Intelligence is this band's forte- Not baton courtesy. Airs Above Your Station is Kinski at its beautiful, soaring, skittery, hot-air balloon peak. They are light yet heavy, stable yet chaotic. The album oozes of foreboding, and "Rhode Island Freakout" boasts this feeling by gloamming out on a soft-spoken murmur with lava-lamp bass. "Semaphore" is strobe-light music beautiful, counter-balancing the of mood of "Steve's Basement". It's like Selected Ambient Works II with some punk throtted in. The verdict? Worth...the...wait. [www.subpop.com]