Losing Charlie, I grieved him more than I grieved losing my titty. Four months later I lost my parrot, Charlie, who was like my bird-child. The album ends with the delicate ' Blood and Marrow,' a Bender bassline to which Nai and Perrin improvised, that Simon pegs as his favourite: “ It’s a classic Hiatus studio song that’s got beautiful exploration and mystery.” For Nai, the lightness of the track was a foil for her grief: “ This was post-surgery.
Bender and Simon’s trading of single notes, back and forth, to make a melody becomes ' All The Words We Don’t Say'. Simon’s experiment with an odd rhythm in groups of 5 becomes a cascading jam called ' Rose Water'.
Behind everything is Hiatus’ familiar sense of musical adventure, their knack for making the complex sound simple, or in their own words “wondercore”. The result is an album, bookended by Verocai’s strings, that relaxes into a groove: sunlit, sublime, masterful. “ Tears were running down my face,” Bender recalls. “ We had no idea what he had written for it.” When Verocai fired up his horn and string sections, it was a release for everyone. “We had recorded the song ‘Get Sun,’ and it already sounded good,” says Bender. Then, a trip to Rio de Janeiro in late-2019 to work with legendary Brazilian artist/arranger Arthur Verocai shifted the vibe of the entire album. My only wish is to live and offer my experience of time and beauty.” “ I guess after the breast cancer scare I decided that I needed to prove to life that the offering I have is genuine. “When you think your life is going to be taken away from you, it makes you think about who you are,” Nai says. Her lyrics, even those written before her illness, took on a prescient quality. As she recovered, the band turned back to their work with altered perspectives. Nai rushed back to Australia and into the hospital, where she underwent a life-saving mastectomy. Her mother’s death from the same disease was never far from her mind. Then, during a brief swing through the U.S., Hiatus’s front-woman was diagnosed with breast cancer. By the fall of 2018, The backing tracks had largely been laid, ready for Nai’s vocals. The six year journey of the album originally began on the road, as they added new material to their sets in support of Choose Your Weapon. Hiatus Kaiyote return in 2021 with their new album Mood Valiant, on Brainfeeder Records/Ninja Tune.
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