It's an album that came together slowly and steadily, his working processes arcane and mysterious in their steady accumulation of sound and inspiration. And knock knock is far and away his greatest statement of that. Though he'd never compare himself to anyone else, Koze only makes sense in the way that other world-builders do, from Bowie to Sun Ra, Outkast to Kate Bush. And that's why individual influences, whether it's the trippy German techno that's always rippled through is albums or the beat-scene abstract hip hop that he incorporated into his DJ-Kicks mix in 2015, are all but irrelevant. You don't get to chose how you hear his music – you enter his world or you don't, that's it. on it goes, nothing is real, everyone is an inhabitant of Koze-world.Īnd that's what is crucial here. Kurt Wagner of Lambchop is a vocoder bohemian, Sophia Kennedy is a sci-fi Weimar cabaret star, José Gonzalez a holographic projection from an old film of South Sea Islands. Speech from Arrested Development delivers luscious and lazy R&B-funk on “Colors of Autumn”, but Koze's warping bass, dubwise echo and alien nature sounds take it to an alternate dimension tropical landscape. The ever-unique Róisín Murphy, on two stunning tracks, becomes a cyborg funk diva. Bon Iver's ghostly hymnals on “Bonfire” are very recognisably Bon Iver, but the way Kosi samples them and they twist and merge with synthetic sounds until choir and computer are writhing around one another in bliss are something else. More than ever before on Koze's records, there are fascinating, individualist – and well-known – voices through out knock knock but again, each of them is rendered strange, drawn into a different reality. indie rock – but though it may sound familiar, it never does what your brain thinks it's going to do. There is still disco, there is still soul, there is still techno, there is still hip hop, there is still psychedelia – there are even wafts of easy listening, lost crackly thriftstore record memories and. Which is not to say it is utterly alien abstraction, mind. In fact, it's a step further beyond: absolutely every single thing here, from grooves to voices to handclaps, is otherworldly and unique. Like all DJ Koze records, knock knock exists outside of trend and influence. 2x 12" Album + 7" inch + download voucher: /products/pampalp013-knock-knockĬD: /products/pampacd013-knock-knock-cd
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