Someone make me like Kayo Dot

This kind of thread always lead me to write : "YOU WILL LOVE X BAND OR ELSE YOU WILL GET THE LASH!!! WORSHIP THEM OR DIIIIIIIE!!!"

No one can make you like Kayo Dot and I won't/can't. Each piece I heard from KD always sounded aimless to me. It seems to me (but, once again, I haven't listened to the whole discographies of KD and Maudlin) that Toby Driver is addicted to the crescendo/decrescendo formula.

@Triceratopsoil: I hardly see the connexion between KD and the "kraut-rock" scene, since the 70's German experimental bands appear to me to be split between the "hypnotic/repetitive" bands (Neu!, Can...) and the "evolutive" bands (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze - which are able to create long complex pieces) - not to talk about Amon Düül II and some free jazz-like stuff.

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: Anthony H. wrote: DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: Anthony H. wrote: Kayo Dot definitely is not music for everyone, but I find them to be brilliant.. Do you like Maudlin of the Well? I haven't heard much. What I did hear I didn't like at first, but it's grown on me. I need to hear a bit more. Which album did you listen to? Because the first three are quite different than Part the Second. Part the Second.

PtS is a masterpiece, but you might want to go ahead and give Leaving Your Body Map a try. It's very different and much more metal; it's extremely different from Kayo Dot.

when Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue won album of the year here at PA in 2006, I eagerly got it.  That was the last Kayo Dot thing I ever bought

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: Anthony H. wrote: Kayo Dot definitely is not music for everyone, but I find them to be brilliant.. Do you like Maudlin of the Well? I haven't heard much. What I did hear I didn't like at first, but it's grown on me. I need to hear a bit more.

Which album did you listen to? Because the first three are quite different than Part the Second.

Kayo Dot definitely is not music for everyone, but I find them to be brilliant.. Do you like Maudlin of the Well?

If you don't like it, you don't like it.  I don't think it's amazing, but I do enjoy parts of Coyote (haven't heard their earlier albums yet).  You could always come back to them after a while and try their music again, but no one can "make" you like a band. 

I don't know. Their music just seems sort of aimless and boring to me. I don't mind Choirs of the Eye too much, but even that one seems like its largely filler sometimes. What is it that draws so many fans to them? And why is it that I see nothing in their music? Toby Driver's oddness has always interested me and it makes me want to like their music, but I just can't find any true greatness...