Kinski interview...yes, six months after the release date
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I really love Kinski, don't you?I love them so much that I offered to interview them for PopMatters. PopMatters does not love them so much. They held onto the interview for six months. This is one reason I do not want to do interviews for PopMatters anymore. But as all fuck-ups and procrastinators are prone to say, better late than never.Enjoy.Pretty Much a Rock Band: An Interview with Kinski[19 March 2008]Kinski guitarist Chris Martin says he'll never be nervous again after the summer's last-minute, arena-sized tour with Tool. His Seattle four-piece may be the only band ever to open for Tool and record a split with Acid Mothers Temple.by Jennifer Kelly You want loud? Go to a Kinski show. The Seattle band’s live performance relies heavily on feedback, processing strummed, bowed, and pedaled guitar sounds into monstrous volumes. It’s overwhelming in the same way Sonic Youth or Mogwai can be, stomach-churning in its intensity and yet oddly, sublimely calming. Like Bardo Pond, Major Stars, and sometime collaborators Acid Mothers Temple, Seattle’s Kinski has long worked the boundaries between experimental psych and straight-up rock. With their latest album, Down Below It’s Chaos, however, guitarist Chris Martin says, “ I don’t think this record is particularly super-experimental,” he adds, “We’ve done experimental things in the past, but now I feel like we’re pretty much a rock band.” More here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/54776/pretty-much-a-rock-band-an-interview-with-kinski/I didn't realize this was going to run today (or ever, really), so I didn't bring the new Kinski album with me. The audio is from Airs Above Your Station,which is two records ago, but still very fine.
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