Kyte

Kyte left me stumped. Honestly, I hadn’t got a clue how to start this review. The Leicestershire based four-piece have pretty much wrote 14 beautiful, sometimes Shoegaze/Post-Rock, sometimes Electro Pop songs that literally grabbed my attention and held it throughout each track. All too often I find myself sliding CD after CD into my disk drive, never finding anything that sticks out really, but that is not the case for Kyte. This is really something special.

Pretty much every song on ‘Dead Waves’ is well written, emotional and goddamn stunning. ‘The Smoke Saves Lives’ is a blinding opening tune, built on sweeping movements, beautiful build ups and a layered synth backing that lifts this song up and takes it somewhere into a spacey electronic heaven.

In fact it’s hard to pinpoint downsides to this album. It’s faultless. Beauty creeps in at every corner; songs like ‘Fear from Death’ are captivating, entrancing and any other word that could possibly associate the group with being fantastic, but the likes of ‘Each Life Critical’ simply trample over everything else purely by captivating a real feeling of utter most perfection.

To put it simply, the band have created 14 masterpieces. I sound like a giddy schoolgirl I know, but honestly, this is a genuine pleasure to listen to. If you’ve ever been interested in Ambient Rock with a cheeky side order of Electro-Shoegaze then give this a spin. You’ll love it, honest.