Kava Kava, hailing from Yorkshire, England, is one of the more interesting bands banging around right now. Fusing funk, psychedelia, trip hop, electronics, and just about everything else, this group of Brits come up with a sound that will keep you guessing through out the course of their songs. Perhaps sounding a bit like Ian Brown meeting Massive Attack on a drunken pub crawl, the band are pretty much unafraid to try anything as long as a groove is involved. With that said, their album, Forwards, is an impressive display of just how diverse and funky this band can be given the space of an album.
Forwards is a record that takes it's diversity and uses it in an effort to try and lose you in a sea of never ending grooves but it never does. Why? Because the album is a funky delight that's as trippy as it is groovy and with songs as catchy as a Drew Brees pass it's just about impossible to lose track of. Reminding me of an amalgamation of 90's electronica all crammed down and summarised into eight songs, it's a brilliant flashback of days gone by when the very idea of mixing things like indie and full on dance music was still a novel idea.
Guitars? Synths? Beats? Funkyness? Together? No, way. But here they are existing in harmony creating atmospherics that are as rock and roll as they are designed for the dancefloor. What a concept! And while things at times things might get a bit lack luster and cliche Kava Kava always redeem themselves with some sort of histrionic comeback or groove. A sign of Kava Kava's talent, the album always finds a way to find get locked on again and that's really what makes Forwards such an entertaining record. From the full on house remixes to the chilled out grooves of, "Tic," Forwards is one heck of an album that proves the groove truly is in the heart.
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