Hold On To Deer Life, There’s A Blcak Boy Behind: Vinyl LP Alma 9 Instant Karma – Bleachers

9    Instant Karma – Bleachers

Act III: “Mio caro bene”

Whether it is in the way their genre-spanning approach to songwriting has allowed them to bridge worlds without being contained to one

Combining influences from classic rock to metal to goth

Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham

Hold On To Deer Life, There’s A Blcak Boy Behind: Vinyl LP Alma 9 Instant Karma – BleachersKabeaush once described their music as the complete opposite of the hardcore leftfield electronic sounds of their then labelmates on Nyege Nyege Tapes. And at the time that was true: the Kenyan polymaths sound on their debut album The Coming of Gaze was fiercely and single mindedly focused towards giddy pop rush, old school party hip hop upfulness, clean sounds, gentleness, bounciness, positivity and JOY. Now, though, the lines are not quite so clear.