Choose your Weapon, by Haitus Kaiyote

This is the brilliant second album released by the Melbourne-based “future soul” quartet in 2015. You should not only be forgiven but also applauded for claiming to hear flamenco, Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, prog, Highlife music, JRPG soundtracks, Bjork, or other sounds in this record. Its provide the connecting motif and organize the chaos respectively. This “more-is more” musical approach is buoyed by killer bass lines, expert audio mixing, and melodies beautifully sung (chanted?) by Nai Palm, the band’s enigmatic frontwoman and guitarist.

Haitus Kayote is very likely one of your favorite artist’s favorite artists—in fact, samples from this album underpin some of the greatest hip hop/R&B songs of the last decade (Duckworth by Kendrick, anyone?). If I am banished to a desert island before I shuffle off this mortal coil, this will be 1 of the 3 albums I take with me.