The KVB ★★★★ Unity

INVADA. CD/DL/LP

Coming of age seventh album produced by Andy Savours (The Horrors, MBV).

Inspired by half-built luxury villas in Spain, where this follow-up to 2016’s Of Desire was written in early 2019, and Le Corbusier’s brutalist Unité d’Habitation from which the album’s legend is taken, the self-styled audio-visual duo explore the concept of ‘ideal living’ over 10 tracks creating sound utopias/dystopias that are immersive and entrancing and not unlike something the Ghost Box label might put out. The track Unité is one of several hypnotic highpoints. “Reconstruction of the nation… future concrete occupation… modular factory living,” Kat Day deadpans over a monophonic rhythmic pulse. Another standout is Unbound, on which golden guitar lines and washes of synths come together in euphoric climax, Day and partner Nicholas Wood’s haunting vocals adding a sense of wonderment throughout.