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5th July 2010 - New Kyte Single Announced - 2 EPs!

Greetings KIDS followers, Just a quick missive to announce that Kyte will be releasing the 2nd single, 'Designed for Damage', taken from their fantastic debut album 'Dead Waves', on July 26th. We will be releasing 2 digital EPs - the first features 3 brand new non-album tracks, 'I'll Follow Dreams for You', 'The Lost Blood' and 'Memories'. The second features 3 superb remixes, by Swedish electro act Pacific!, Singaporean DJ Effen and Cassette Culture.

In addition, Kyte's remix of the Kitsune-signed Feldberg song 'Dreamin' has been attracting praise from Popjustice and on Hype Machine. Have a listen to it here.....

The band have also announced a new London live date, they will be playing at Shhh! An 'all day celebration of quiet music' at Cecil House on Sunday August 1st. This promises to be a very special occasion and early bird tickets are available here:

'Dead Waves' is out now and available to buy from all good physical and digital stockists.

"Dead Waves is all about the song...rooted in solid songwriting that provides a real meat and marrow...plush and elegiac....treasure it." - NME

"Imminent single ‘Designed For Damage’ fills the room & sets an intense level of poignancy you never knew existed" - 4/5 THE FLY

"The UK debut reveals a band who have matured, adding beats and electronic flourishes to their sonic landscapes" 4/5 - UNCUT

"Choruses that Coldplay would bite Brian Eno’s arm off for, but with the swoonsome beats of M83 and Maps at their finest" - ROCK CITY

"Their music hits home on a universal scale; 'Dead Waves' is a huge record." - WHISPERIN AND HOLLERIN

19th April 2010 - Dead Waves and IHNFSA Remix EP out now!

Dead Waves by Kyte is OUT TODAY! Available Via our website, all good record stores and all digital stores! Also available today is the IHNFSA Remix EP, featuring mixes by SiN, Echoes, Sheldon & Fiasco and Filmloom (available digitally only). Please support this release and get the band out there!

DEAD WAVES:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dead-waves/id366277630
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Waves-Kyte/dp/B0038JE8X0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1271672158&sr=8-1
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/13640087/Dead-Waves/Product.html
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;0;-1;-1;-1&sku=92944

Plus many other physical and digital retailers.........

IHNFSA REMIX EP:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ihnfsa-ep/id366276664

Plus many other digital retailers......

27th March 2010 - Album Launch Party

We are pleased to announce that we will be throwing a FREE launch party for the release of 'Dead Waves'. It will be at the Old Blue Last on April 19th, the day of release.

Support will come from:

The Strange Death of Liberal England
Rival Consoles

and a DJ set from Maps

The Facebook event is here - click attending!

27th March 2010 - Action Action Action

The initial reaction from the press to 'Dead Waves' has been amazing......check out the following lovely reviews:

"Kyte are the type of band that can draw the most casual listener in with the first song and make them a mega fan by the end of the album" There Goes The Fear

"from lush and gentle to full-on, planet-destroying anthemic pop at the drop of an asteroid.....it suggests that Kyte are on a mission to re-align the term 'epic'" Whisperin and Hollerin

"choruses that Coldplay would bite Brian Eno’s arm off for, but with the swoonsome beats of M83 and Maps at their finest" Rock City

We have also had our first radio plays - from the ever-brilliant Rob Da Bank on Radio 1: Listen Again
and also from the equally-brilliant Jon Kennedy on XFM: Tracklisting

Plenty more to come!

27th March 2010 - ihnfsa Video now Online.....

Made by Ben from the band........

27th March 2010 - Kyte Remix Competition Winner....

Well, we got a fantastic response to the remix competition, and some excellent entries in a variety of styles. Unfortunately, like the Eurovision Song Contest, there can be only one winner, and that was the entry by FILMLOOM. Their myspace is here: http://www.myspace.com/filmloom and the guys promise me there will be lots of exciting new things appearing there soon, so bookmark it and watch their progress......huge thanks again to everyone who entered.

P.S. Another excellent entry was from Maybeshewill - their remix appears on a compilation of their remixes and we heartily recommend checking it out - details on their myspace.....http://www.myspace.com/maybeshewont

17th February 2010 - Free Kyte Download

Kyte's new album, Dead Waves, is due for release on 19th April and to get your taste buds tingling we are offering a track from the album, the epic 'Like She Said' as a free download. Click to get your free mp3: Like She Said

16th February 2010 - Kyte Remix Competition

Hello all, In conjunction with the release of Kyte's debut full-length album Dead Waves we are running a remix competition for the track IHNFSA. As part of this competition the winning entry will be featured on the IHNFSA EP, which will be available for digital download on April 19th 2010 a week before the album drops. Here are the links to the separates you'll need to get started: http://www.kidsthelabel.co.uk/Kyte/ihnfsasynthsdrums1.zip http://www.kidsthelabel.co.uk/Kyte/ihnfsasynthsdrums2.zip http://www.kidsthelabel.co.uk/Kyte/ihnfsavox.zip

We're very excited to see what you come up with and will be listening to all of the entries. The winner may also get signed copies of the album, possibly a t-shirt or 2 and there's a chance of other goodies. Only way to find out is to submit the winning entry. If you're not sure where to start why not listen to some of Kyte's remixes? The link is in our top friends. Submit your entries to wearedownwiththekids@gmail.com

Please include your name, contact details etc... you know the score. Closing date is Friday the 26th of February. Good luck!

14th February 2010 - Kyte - Dead Waves

Leicestershire four-piece Kyte will release their debut full-length album, Dead Waves, on 19 April through KIDS Records. Dead Waves follows Kyte's self-titled mini-album and highly acclaimed EP, Two Stars, Two Sparks (released December 2008).

The album will be preceded by the release of a single, ihnfsa, on 19 April. NME went on to predict that "Kyte will steal your heart", and they've returned to do just that. On Dead Waves, Kyte's ever-atmospheric, dreamy soundscapes come coupled with big pop sensibilities. First single 'ihnfsa' is symphonic, lush and melancholic; an exemplum of the band's newfound focus. 'Smoke Saves Lives', meanwhile, is an enormous-sounding explosion of big choruses, driven by a simple yet hypnotic piano line.

Kyte's debut works precisely because of this contrast with the album's more far-reaching musical efforts: the epic 'Each Life Critical', for instance, sounds like Sigur Rós soundtracking Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Such huge sounds need the lyrical content to match, on which Nick Moon duly delivers ("painful nerves are turning, sleepless, searching, back in time, hallucinate the love").

Though Dead Waves is their first proper long-player, Kyte have made impressively large strides for a new act. They built up a strong following in both the indie and dance press, thanks in part to supporting slots with the likes of The Whip, School of Seven Bells, iLiKETRAiNS and Iceland's Ólafur Arnalds. In the US, their track 'Boundaries' was used on a nationally-aired advert for HBO's The Sopranos.

The band can also boast of quite remarkable success in Japan, following the release of their Japan-only album Science For The Living. This saw them chart at number 5, and debut one place higher than U2. 2010 will see this particular Kyte fly even higher.

"Kyte will steal your heart soon as look as you" - NME

"They're the stuff of dream-pop dreams, blessed with a compellingly insular intensity…they're looking thoroughly poised to soar." - The Fly

"Kyte positively gleam" Rock Sound

15th February 2010 - Dead Waves - coming soon

Kyte - Dead Waves.....coming soon

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