Coyote (album)

Coyote
Studio album by Kayo Dot
Released	April 20, 2010
Recorded	2009
Genre	Avant-garde rock, chamber music
Length	39:48
Label	Hydra Head Records
Producer	Randall Dunn
Kayo Dot chronology
Blue Lambency Downward (2008) Coyote (2010)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
PopMatters	[2]
The Silent Ballet	[3]

Coyote is the fourth studio album by Kayo Dot, released April 20 on Hydra Head. The album was written, according to frontman Toby Driver, as a single, narrative-driven, long-form composition written with story and text provided by a close, terminally-ill friend of the band, Yuko Sueta, in the final stage of her life. Coyote was once again engineered by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Six Organs of Admittance, Wolves in the Throne Room) in Seattle, Washington, forging a new genre of "goth fusion" which combines elements of early Cure, Faith and the Muse, and Bauhaus with Herbie Hancock's psychedelic album, Sextant, and Scott Walker's recent album, The Drift. The lyrics and story were constructed with deliberate melodrama to pay homage as well to the intended gothic vibe, expressing the protagonist's loneliness and longing to be in a better place, and her journey through her own personal looking-glass through a hallucinatory world of fear and wonder.

Track listing

1. "Calonyction Girl" – 7:59
2. "Whisper Ineffable" – 11:13
3. "Abyss Hinge 1: Sleeping Birds Sighing in Roscolux" – 3:45
4. "Abyss Hinge 2: The Shrinking Armature" – 13:40
5. "Cartogram Out of Phase" – 3:11

Personnel

• Toby Driver - bass and vocals
• Mia Matsumiya - violin and guitar
• David Bodie - drums and percussion
• Daniel Means - alto sax
• Terran Olson - tenor sax and keyboards
• Tim Byrnes - trumpet ^[4]

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ PopMatters review
3. ^ The Silent Ballet review
4. ^ http://solidpr.blogspot.com/2010/01/kayo-dot-unveils-coyote-toby-driver.html