Sophomore studio album by the Australian Future-Soul quartet, Hiatus Kaiyote, following up their 2012 debut Tawk Tomahawk. Choose Your Weapon was recorded between 2013-2015, and released in 2015 through Salaam Remi’s record label, Flying Bhudda and Sony Masterworks. The album is more polished and refined than its predecessor, with brain-liquifying synth grooves, time-signature shifts and all-in-all “multi-dimensional poly-rhythmic gangster shit”. Genre influences on the album range from jazz, soul, R&B, West African funk, samba and latin, with the band piecing all these different sounds together to make their most cohesive piece yet. The album’s lyrical content touches upon various themes including natural and supernatural topics as well as speaking about technological subjects, while other songs on the album speak of a more personal subject matter i.e. “By Fire”, which is a burial song inspired in part by lead singer Nai Palm’s father’s house-fire death. “Breathing Underwater” was nominated for Best R&B Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards. Upon release, Choose Your Weapon was met with critical acclaim, with an average Metacritic rating of 88 out of 100.