Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner.

Coyote are on a roll, with releases flowing, flying, out of the Notts duo over the last few years – 7s, 12s, min-albums, full length albums, edits, the full shebang. The latest 6-track offering, Hurry Up And Live, follows on from two previous sets, Everything Moves, Nothing Rests and I Hear A New World. All draw from the same Balearic well, but woven in a wide range of sounds and styles.

The new album opens with Both Gone – fractured synths and washes of electronics, a chopped up “Ahh”, and some glassy twinkles. Eventually bass and drums join in, and there’s a sudden injection of rhythm and momentum. Not too much, this is still Coyote. It’s you’re still sitting and watching the sunset with a drink in your hand kind. It’s an emotive and evocative, coupling the “feel good” with the faintest tinge of melancholy. That’s followed by People Take It Too Seriously. Timm and Ampo keeping things reflective with layers of synths, dubby bass, ticking drum machine, and more sighing, ethereal vocals.

We Got Lost starts with a snatched spoken word sample, ‘We got lost down here’. Coyote are the masters of lifting these clips, building entire tracks around snippets from films and documentaries. The voice continues, talking about revolution and music, while woodblock synths, percussion, and then strings move everything forward. These elements disappearing and reappearing, like tides coming in and out.

Side 2 starts with the gentle chords and electronic atmospherics of Beltane. Its melody a memory of forgotten TV theme tunes. Show Me has a one-fingered piano sequence take centre stage, before a guitar picks up the baton. The last track, Cirrus, announces itself with kick drum thump, distorted keys, and more echo. Everything arriving through a smokey sonic haze, until one lead line leaps in, and then another, and then a third, each replacing the other, and conjuring a last night in the sun, the feeling of things both ending and beginning. Cirrus, appropriately enough, fades out slowly, in a gauze of FX and delay, like wispy clouds wandering a pale blue sky.

Also in shops is Coyote’s Magic Wand Special Edition Volume 2, four edits for use at home, or when playing out. The pair on side 1, for me, are the pick of the bunch. The first, Lonely, is an eight minute reimagining of a 1981 chart hit. The boys lending their baked Balearic groove to the OG’s India-infused, psychedelic pop. Retuning and refitting the tearway tabla for 2023, as slice of slo-mo perfection. The final few minutes where the percussion, hand drums, strings, synths, and floating vocal come together and lift off are particularly persuasive. The second, Western Revolution, repurposes one of our lost poets, his verse on private resistance, public apathy, and the role of the media / capitalism, to create 6-minutes of brilliant, stirring, socially conscious, autumnal Balearica.

“The first revolution is when you change your mind…”

Coyote’s Hurry Up And Live can be preordered from Juno.

You can find more proper, on point, prose from Adam Turner over at his own brilliant blog, The Bagging Area. Adam is also part of the admin team at the mighty Flightpath Estate.