OOIOO

April 05, 2004

OOIOO | Kila Kila Kila |Thrill Jockey | Japan

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There's a paradox I've noticed in writing about new music--the more singular an artist's vision is, the longer the list of names and styles to which you're tempted to compare them. Yoshimi Yokota (a.k.a. Yoshimi P-we a.k.a. Yoshimi (who) Battles the Pink Robots a.k.a. the drummer of the Boredoms) calls this paradox to mind with her band OOIOO. Their new album Kila Kila Kila is a forest of beautiful and ever-evolving creatures. Each song carries the genes of a thousand musical ancestors but expresses them in the most unexpected mutations--birds open gills in midair and plunge into the deep, elk grow rattles on their antlers and the butterflies have giant stingers.