Human Kindness
posted in: Artist Features • Rock
A Bird's Eye View of The Kindness Kind
Fact: If you worship at the altar of Beth Gibbons, you’ll be a fan of The Kindness Kind. If you love the juxtaposition of lilting & heady and abrasive & crushing, you’ll want to put their music on repeat and ride from one extreme to the other. The Seattle band crafts spacious indie rock with a trip-hop glaze, melding Portishead-esque melodies with hard rock and jazz. Lotus has whiffs of Paranoid Android with its intro of guitars on low throttle. But it’s the ghostly electronic textures that nip at the edges, and the seductive swirl of singer Alessandra Rose’s voice that take the luminous melody somewhere else entirely. A New Sense vacillates between the heavy crunch of guitars and drums and an almost (but not quite) jaunty piano romp. The Kindness Kind reminds us that all that glitters isn’t necessarily gold ” sometimes it’s a heavier kind of rock.
