Kowtow Popof
“Though the title may portend doom, Popof shows no fear, flying through this full-length while displaying a confident and unabashed approach…. End of Greatness is an intelligent and delightful affair.” –Wes Barker, Amplifier Magazine
In space, no one can hear you… sing? Well, at least that’s the case with Kowtow Popof, who, like a mute mad scientist, quietly concocted his recent release, Exalted Headband, as a follow-up and instrumental companion to 2007’s End of Greatness.
On Headband, Popof mixes elements of rock and electronica with classical and folk touches to create a soundtrack of moody pop. Like Greatness, it unfolds against a cosmic backdrop, each song a constellation of sounds collected from the stardust of some parallel musical universe. But where Greatness sang about a romantic break-up within a scope of celestial disintegration, Headband vibrates voicelessly like cosmic microwave radiation — content, perhaps, just to exist, rather than to remark.
Maybe these dark and oblique ruminations leave you at a loss for words. And maybe that is exactly the point. You might not be able to put your finger on it, but your feet are moving to the beat. And your mind? It can’t stop humming that tune.
Also available from Wampus: End of Greatness, Eat My Dust, Coaster, and Songs from the Pointless Forest.
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