Kodiak Empire are a talented Brisbane five-piece who have today dropped their debut EP, Silent Bodies.
There’s an impressive variety of musicality on display here, as a heavy, prog-rock dirge suddenly breaks into twinkling keys on opener ‘Ocean and Sky’, or the drums hammer out an intricate, tumbling beat on ‘Pasa Doble’.
The vocals, too, deliver throughout, stamping their mark without wrenching attention away from heavily-layered, jazz-infused tracks like ‘Connochaetes’.
It’s a vicious but nuanced opening volley from the band, and we’re sure it’ll sound brilliant in a live setting when they head out on tour next week, dates below.
Kodiak Empire Tour Dates
Tuesday 9th August – The Zoo, Brisbane (info)
with Qlaye Face (Melb), Red in Tooth, Crow Do Not Loiter Here
Thursday 25th August – Vic on the Park, Sydney (info)
with Hashshashin, Dream Cities
Saturday 27 th August – The Workers Club, Melbourne (info)
with Qlaye Face (Single launch), Bear the Mammoth, Geo
Friday 2nd September – Bundaberg Grand Hotel, Bundaberg
with Into The Badlands, Odysseus Reborn, Red in Tooth, Iron Wizard
Saturday 3rd September – Murphy’s Hotel, Maryborough
with Psychosphere, Odysseus Reborn, Into the Badlands, Red in Tooth
Friday 9th September – The Live Room, Gladstone
with Red in Tooth and guest
Saturday 10th September – Trainspotters, Brisbane
with Basil’s Kite (Syd), Napoleonic Wars, Shady Bliss
