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Kite Party
Wish Mountain
Prairie Queen
Rating: 4 out of 5

The first thing you will notice about Kite Party is their detail to aesthetics. From the website to the album cover, you get a sense that this band takes just as much time to create as they do to produce.

The first thing you will notice when listening to Kite Party is their naturalistic sense for musical purity. Recorded in two days, you can either conclude that Kite Party was confident in their talent, or that their intentions were to present a raw, uninhibited sound.

And that’s what it does on Wish Mountain. With tints of the ‘90s indie rock call and response on “Indiana Pete,” the multi-instrumental approach of the early 2000s, and the essence of early Meat Puppets roughness, this album offers so much from so little.

In barely under 20 minutes, we experience a driven landscape of melodic pursuits, rustic vocals that make you want to pull out your Replacements albums, and songs written to last.

It’s not the recording’s bells and whistles that make this album because there are none. It’s the contribution of each band member where if you isolate each person, Wish Mountain maintains a sense of authenticity. And this formula simply works for Kite Party.