Everyone is rushing to get vaccinated and to avoid the bleak misfortune of catching the virus. Right now, we are in a season of recovery from the hectic year we were lucky enough to survive. Palm’s poetic writing paints images of healing, opening your heart and letting the sun in. The horns provided by Verocai give the song an air of success and rejoicing. That’s why it is so fitting that now, a year after the beginning of quarantines and cabin fever, Hiatus Kaiyote finally released a single. A few collaborations were done here and there, but of course, eventually, the pandemic began and got in the way of everyone. After undergoing a mastectomy, she performed a cover from her hospital bed. However, that did not stop Palm from keeping in touch with her music. Suffice to say, the music had to be put on hold. Following this project in 2018, Palm was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Palm released a bare bones album in 2017 titled “Needle Paw.” In her solo project, Palm rehashed some of the songs she had written for Hiatus Kaiyote while having her bandmates occasionally accompany her. 1,” the band took a break from making music together to follow their own personal music paths. Apart from touring and dropping their mixtape, “Recalibrations Vol. The self-proclaimed “future-soul” band hasn’t been completely silent all this time. However, that changes now with the release of their new single “Get Sun.” This triumphant single from their upcoming album “Mood Valiant” combines the lyrical talents of lead singer Nai Palm and the orchestral skills of Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai, making for a brilliant comeback to the music scene. After the release of their critically acclaimed sophomore project “Choose Your Weapon” in 2015, Hiatus Kaiyote refrained from releasing any new music. 1, an EP of remixes with a contribution from McFerrin (assisted by Anderson Paak) followed in 2016.It has been about five years since Hiatus Kaiyote truly began to live up to their name. Choose Your Weapon, an expansive album twice the length of the band's debut, was issued on Flying Buddha in 2015 and debuted at number 11 on Billboard's Top Ru0026B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In late 2014, Hiatus Kaiyote released a three-track preview of their second album the first, "By Fire," is a dizzying song partly inspired by the house-fire death of Palm's father.
That track was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Ru0026B Performance.
The band signed to Salaam Remi's Sony-distributed Flying Buddha label and re-released Tawk Tomahawk with a bonus track - a version of album highlight "Nakamarra" featuring a guest verse from Q-Tip. They self-released their short debut album, Tawk Tomahawk, in 2012, and gradually won support from a wide swath of taste-making DJs (such as Gilles Peterson) and fellow artists (beginning with Taylor McFerrin and later including Questlove and Erykah Badu). Fronted by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Nai Palm, the band also features bassist Paul Bender, drummer Perrin Moss, and keyboardist Simon Mavin (also of the Bamboos). Self-termed future soul band Hiatus Kaiyote - akin to a progressive neo-soul group with a little left-of-center hip-hop production - formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2011.