Structurally, Choose Your Weapon meanders through 18 tracks, blurring the lines between mixtape and album. It's easy to pick out influences from classic R&B-Palm credits Stevie Wonder, Rod Temperton and Burt Bacharach, in particular-but, like Palm's prized accessories, the less obvious ones come from friends back in Melbourne, like the experimental vocalist Jaala, sexy beatmakers Silent Jay and Jace XL, and electronica group Kirkis. Palm maintains her flashy style onstage, often donning chunky chains, feathers, furs and other statement pieces, while she and the rest of Hiatus Kaiyote get down to their self-described "multidimensional, polyrhythmic gangster shit." In the course of two records-2012's Tawk Tomahawk, which featured the Grammy-nominated "Nakamarra," and this year's follow-up, Choose Your Weapon-the band has managed to blend a wide range of sonic identities into one coherent style. "The way I dress is a natural extension of the human that I am." "The way that I adorn myself is more of a physical representation of the things that I'm interested in, or the things that inspire me, or trinkets from the people that I adore," Palm writes in an email somewhere between her band's show in Yokohama and its next destination, San Diego. Frontwoman Nai Palm-dressed in an Iggy and the Stooges T-shirt, sequined shrug and acid-washed jeans, with a black bandanna tied around her right ankle and enormous gold chandelier earrings half the size of her face-poses in the center of bassist Paul Bender, percussionist Perrin Moss and keyboardist Simon Mavin.
When Hiatus Kaiyote arrived in Japan recently, the Australian future-soul quartet tweeted an exhausted post-travel selfie.
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