![]() We get irregular time signatures, birdsong and other found sounds long, wordless passages and tricksy skits and an intoxicating confidence in their arrangements. Mood Valiant has been delayed by solo careers, the pandemic and Saalfield’s successful breast cancer surgery, but it’s the group’s most coherent work yet. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm: ‘Last year I lost a breast and then my bird. ![]() ![]() ![]() Singer-lyricist Nai Palm (real name Naomi Saalfield) might not be taking her responsibilities entirely seriously – this is a band that have been long lauded for their inventive, chameleon-like R&B, rather than radio bait – but even without an obvious hit, there’s much to like about their third album. The Australian quartet kick off the track Chivalry Is Not Dead with some seductive musings about our mucus-dripping friends, then move on to seahorse sex, hummingbirds and batteries. You are not, in that case, Hiatus Kaiyote. If you were trying to write the words for a sexy comeback song about the candied pleasures of the flesh, you’d probably avoid the mating rituals of the leopard slug.
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