Kinesis - Everything You Thought You Knew To Be

I promised something from these guys towards the end of last year. Sorry it's taken a while, but you'll be glad for it.

Kinesis were a criminaly overlooked, young English grungy rock band from the early 2000s, whom I was tipped off to by a friend along with other lesser known teen britrock greats such as the Llama Farmers, Murry The Hump et al. Anyway, these guys played politically charged tracks ala Manics while managing to sound like a cross between Muse and Keane. But don't hold that against them...

Kinesis - Killing With Ease

Around 2002, before Midasuno and while I still had friends, they were as close to metal as I got and I liked their Billboard Beauty single release so much I picked one up with a spare HMV voucher and shipped it off to the best looking girl I knew. Just for the lols, like. But I kept the MP3s and had been listening to the 3 included tracks ever since. The first track included with this post is the third track from the single, Killing With Ease; and I'm crap at writing descriptions of this kinda thing but lets just say it shows their softer side. "So freeeeee.... And it's ok, it's ok, it's okkkk... And it's feeels... So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautifuulll..." You get the point.

And then they released You Are Being Lied To - their second and final album, on the day they broke up, as a free online download (albeit only the title track was at a listenable bitrate, so they don't impede on The Crimea's groundbreaking moves... Charlawho?...). Anyway, said t une was added to collection and with it's message of govermental misleading and anti war theming it became a much listened favourite along with the other three.

Kinesis - Everything You Thought You Knew To Be

Four years later and the internet floodgates have opened up many a tune from many a band, an d Kinesis aren't left out. Much of the ...Lied To album is available to stream in full from interadio giants Last.fm, and I was originally gonna rip The Question Has Changed off as it's the only one that came accross semi-decent on the original ~56 Kbps album MP3s I have, but I forgot the name, mistook it for another, and hit Everything You Thought You Knew To Be.

And fuck me, is it ever a bit epic. Bound to become my favourite Kinesis track; I've been putting off picking up the album off ebay for £0.pence but no more... come free listing weekend, you shall be mine. Rest of you, do yourself a favour, hit play, and check out the other tacks on Last.fm. Overlooked no more, Kinesis rocks it.

- Christopher