Coyote (album)

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]

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