Following their 2011 debut, Baseball Season, Kite Party released their long awaited sophomore album Come On Wondering this week via Animal Style Records. Praised by Stereogum, SPIN, Brooklyn Vegan, CMJ, Noisey, and more, Come On Wandering is an album born from the transplant experience.
Started in 2007 in Tamaqua, PA, Kite Party have resided in Philadelphia for the past six years through lineup changes and all that 18-24 year old stuff one goes through. With a sound that splits the difference between a youth spent listening to NOFX and Rancid and an early adulthood spent listening to talk radio, Kite Party write layered, atmospheric, driving songs about feeling off with most things most of the time. Songs like Bell, Supervillain, and Planet Away are propelled forward by a three-guitar attack while tracks like Halflife and Nest rely on a tight rhythm section and ephemeral keyboard sounds. Lyrical topics range from losing friends to drug abuse to the banality of doing laundry and back again.
Recommended for fans of The National who still like to skateboard, couples who watch the Royal Tenenbaums and the Fugazi documentary on the same date night, and anyone who wishes that maybe The Replacements had kind of been a shoegaze band.
Catch them live here:
5/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA [Album Release Show!!]
5/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ David Blaine’s The Steakhouse
5/23 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artwork
5/24 – Athens, OH @ The Lodge
5/25 – Columbus, OH @ WYMI
5/27 – Normal, IL @ Firehouse
5/28 – Chicago, IL @ Dee Dee Ramone’s Funky Lab
5/29 – Grand Rapids, MI
5/30 – Akron, OH @ It’s a Kling Thing
5/31 – Scranton, PA @ 25/8 Studios