Kilto Take’s new album has been a long time coming. Although pushed back six months due to the lead singer’s illness, the album itself took a relatively short time to produce and was written and recorded in one short month.

 

Released very recently, Resolute has been already been touted by Steve Lamacq at BBC Radio 6 Music, which suggests good things can be expected from this album. Opening with the title track, a the long, shrieking note held at the start has one shivering, bracing for impact as images of an oncoming train instantly reveal themselves in the listener’s mind. This unnerving start proves to be rather anti-climactic and nothing that exciting happens again for the rest of the album.

 

The fantastic and loud start which forces you to listen and take note of the musicians is something which Kilto Take rely rather heavily on throughout the entirety of the album as almost each track begins with a sustained squeal. All the tracks on this album seem to follow the same depressing theme which, despite odd moments of catchy riffs and lively rhythms, make the entire album rather dark and sad – an extremely brooding album on the whole.

 

My personal favourite track on the album is the last, Inertia, and sounds like it could be used at the end of a movie where the lovers are floating off into the distance together and yet, despite the relaxing and floating melody, the lyrics “if we lie together, we die together” retain that note of sadness which seems to be the album’s pursuit.

 

Although a lot of the songs share similarities in themes and opening styles, the repetitive motion of the tracks is the real downside to this album; musically they are rather talented. Mimic in particular demonstrates the vocalists varied range and the brilliant tone he achieves in the higher notes is wonderfully controlled, something which usually takes singers a long time to master.

 

As a debut album it has a few flaws and is readily repetitive which could be a result of the push to release the album after such a long delay. It is however a good basis on which Kilto Take can build future work and a little more diversity in style and theme could see them go a long way.