Kites
Calendar worthy
Buying a calendar three months into year you’re buying the calendar for has its advantages.
My girlfriend and I have always coordinated our family schedule with a simple wall calendar. With the baby’s birth in early January, we didn’t quite get around to refreshing the calendar with a 2008 edition of any kind, so we only got around to doing it two weeks ago. And honestly, I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting it, but I was surprised when I saw the prices of the calendars at our disposal.
Slashed, and I mean slashed, markups on remarkable, gorgeous calendars, once sold at exuberant I’ll-ever-buy-a-caldendar-at-this-price levels, now down to dime-store levels. I just really hadn’t occurred to me that we were ending the first quarter of the year, so the retailers had to get rid of most of their calendar stock. I was giddy and overjoyed. The prospect of having full access to make a wonderful discovery excited me from head to toe.
That feeling is very close to the same reasons I delve into the reaches of the Internet to find MP3s of new bands, new sounds, new music. Because when you do find that something special, that little piece of music magic which you know could have completely passed you by, it reaches down deep and thrills you to no extent.
Which is why I am thrilled by Heroes And Villains by Kites; it indeed is something special, a song whose high production value and detail-precious execution make it a cut above the rest. It starts off slow with a few guitar chords and dulcet vocals, setting the stage for the eager drums to punctuate the inevitable slow build it promises to flourish into. And it does indeed deliver a surprisingly vast, epic pop-rock performance, powerful and masterful, bordering the anthemic, climaxing in a charged apogee which straddles between its new wave sensibilities and theatre rock’s bombast. But without a doubt, Jean-Philip Grobler’s powerful voicework is the clincher, demonstrating an impressive range which serves as the perfect dramatic tool to accompany the song’s colossal vibe.
Thus, just as I am elated by coming across this Kites song, I was equally jubilant with the remarkable Tintin calendar we were able to bring home. It hangs in the kitchen, at an angle where I can look at it when we eat.
MP3: Kites - Heroes And Villains
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