Coyote (Kayo Dot album)

2010 studio album by Kayo Dot

Coyote

Studio album by

Kayo Dot

Released| April 20, 2010
Recorded| 2009
Genre|

* Avant-rock
* post-rock
* gothic rock
* jazz fusion

Length| 39:48
Label| Hydra Head Records
Producer| Randall Dunn
Kayo Dot chronology
| Blue Lambency Downward
(2008)  | Coyote
(2010)  | Gamma Knife
(2012)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
PopMatters| [2]

Coyote is the fourth studio album by American avant-garde metal band Kayo Dot, released April 20, 2010 on Hydra Head Records. The album is a single narrative-driven, long-form composition in five movements. The story and text were provided by a close, terminally-ill friend of the band, Yuko Sueta, in the final stage of her life. The music was written by Toby Driver in a so-called "goth fusion" style, combining influences from the Cure, Bauhaus and Faith and the Muse with further influences from Scott Walker's experimental album The Drift. Sueta's story and lyrics were constructed with deliberate melodrama as part of the intended gothic aesthetic, 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.

Like Kayo Dot's previous album, Coyote was produced and engineered by Randall Dunn in Seattle, Washington.

## Story

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In April 2008, Toby Driver began working on a new long-form composition with Yuko Sueta, a NYC-based writer, filmmaker, and video artist. A first draft of the piece was premiered at The Stone in September 2008 by "The Kayo Dot Auxiliary Unit" (David Bodie and Daniel Means of Kayo Dot, Yuko Sueta, and Tim Byrnes on trumpet). Shortly thereafter, Sueta, who had been fighting breast cancer, became incapacitated by the disease.[2] Driver then re-drafted and adapted the piece for Kayo Dot toured it in May 2009 on the road with Secret Chiefs 3, and recorded it with Randall Dunn in Seattle during June–July 2009, releasing it later as 2010's Coyote. Sueta died while the record was in post-production, and the band dedicated it to her.[2] After the positive reaction to the content performed on tour, Driver released Coyote in April 2010 on Hydra Head. On the album, the rotating lineup was made up of Driver on bass and vocals, Terran Olson on keyboards, David Bodie on drums, Mia Matsumiya on violin, Tim Byrnes on trumpet, and Daniel Means on woodwinds. Coyote was released to mixed reviews on the sound, but positive reception on the concept of the album, such as PopMatters, who called it "stark and inaccessible."[2]

## Track listing

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All songs written by Toby Driver and Kayo Dot. All lyrics written by Yuko Sueta.

No.| Title| Length

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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
Total length:| 39:48

## Personnel

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* 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 and French horn[3]

## References

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1. ^ AllMusic review
2. ^ a b c d PopMatters review
3. ^ "SOLID PR: Kayo Dot Unveils "Coyote" * Toby Driver Curates The Stone". Solidpr.blogspot.com. 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2012-02-10.

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Kayo Dot

* Toby Driver
* Ron Varod
* Leonardo Didkovsky
* Matthew Serra
* Philip Price

* Jason Byron
* Greg Massi
* Sam Gutterman
* Kim Abrams
* Daniel Means
* Tim Byrnes
* Nicholas Kyte
* Ryan McGuire
* Forbes Graham
* John Carchia
* D.J. Murray
* Tom Malone
* Patrick Wolff
* David Bodie
* Mia Matsumiya
* Terran Olson

Studio albums|

* Choirs of the Eye
* Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
* Blue Lambency Downward
* Coyote
* Gamma Knife
* Hubardo
* Coffins on Io
* Plastic House on Base of Sky
* Blasphemy
* Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike

Labels|

* Hydra Head
* Robotic Empire
* Tzadik Records
* Holy Roar
* The Flenser

Related bands|

* maudlin of the Well
* Tartar Lamb
* Gregor Samsa
* Time of Orchids
* MATH
* Baliset
* Bloody Panda

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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