Catch Kino Kimino performing at The Crocodile on June 5th with Wavves in support of their debut LP, Bait is for Sissies, that's out now on Ghost Ramp Records! From the snowy wilds of Manitoba, Kino Kimino landed in New York City, headed across the river to Hoboken and plugged in with half of Sonic Youth to throw down the ten sweetly serrated, sometimes volatile, post-punk songs comprising new album Bait Is for Sissies. Some other things happened in between, it's true, but the outline holds: Kino Kimino mastermind Kim Talon is a native of Winnipeg, and the singer and guitarist has since relocated to New York, after a few stops along the way. She recorded Bait Is for Sissies at Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon West studio, with Lee Ranaldo on guitar and Steve Shelley on drums, along with Melinda Holm on bass. Talon met Ranaldo and Shelley through John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile), who produced.
Though Bait Is for Sissies is not Talon's first album, it is Kino Kimino's debut. The songs explore betrayal, violence and the feeling of being an outsider, a dramatized response to the end of a romantic relationship that had been founded on deceit. Music was her catharsis and, like always, she returned to Winnipeg to write. "It's the third-coldest city in the world. I can focus because it's a place where there is nothing else," Talon says. "It's like going to write an album in the Arctic, basically." That isolated feeling is essential for an artist who writes songs in torrents. "I need to get them out in order to clear my mind and move on," says Talon, who calls herself "an off- the-cuff writer." "There is an urgency to my writing process, maybe a compulsion that I'm submitting to. The writing process and songs loom constantly, like a haunting."Videos