Moonstruck!
Listen to tracks from Kíla’s astonishing new album Luna Park
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 11 Jul 2003
Luna Park, not to put too fine a point on it, is the Kíla album (and it is not just your buds at hotpress.com who think this) that the world has been waiting for. They've long been one of Ireland's most iconoclastic, wildly creative and astonishing live acts - less a band than a force of nature - but with Luna Park, producer Mick Glossop has, it seems, finally captured the supposedly uncapturable on record. (It’s no wonder, either; as he produced The Waterboys’ This Is The Sea, worked with Stevie Wonder and Frank Zappa and mixed 13 albums for Van Morrison.) Have a listen: Album opener and current single Glanfaidh Mé is what can only be described (trust us) as an absolutely monumental piece of music. It gets bigger (and bigger and bigger) over a colossal, insane NINE minutes, and when it’s over you instantly have to hear it again. We suggest you listen on very large speakers, and give yourself loads of room to go mental. regular quality high quality Luna Park, meanwhile, is so vari-coloured and unpredictable it feels more like a film than a piece of music. Less dancefloor-poptastic than Glanfaidh Mé, it’s a grower: you keep finding more stuff each time you listen. regular quality high quality Rossa’s Turlough, from the ‘Glanfaidh Mé’ CD single, is a lesson in How To Have Fun With A B-Side. It involves plinky-plonky mandolins and big loud smashy rock drums and sneaky bass guitars and jaunty bodhráns and er toy laser-guns and plastic bazookas and things that go boing. Tch. Geniuses. regular quality high quality Enjoy!
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