In Tomorrow Hid Yesterday is the debut album from Swedish quintet Koi, and shows the band as having definite potential for future albums.
The album is a meshing of sounds that comes together in a way refreshing from much of what is on the market today.
Where some bands make heavy use of synthesizers and lose some of the “real” instrumentation, Koi uses minimal synth. Synthesizers are used sparingly throughout the album and, when they are, they’re kept light so the focus remains on the other instruments.
And those other instruments are played in a beautiful fusion. For some of the tracks on In Tomorrow Hid Yesterday, the guitar has almost an acoustic quality that gets paired with delicate piano and simple drumming. On other tracks, Koi goes in the opposite direction, mixing things up with wailing electric guitar and heavy drums and keys....MORE
