Kassie Krut

BIO

Kassie Krut began as a solo act, its name impishly garbling that of its maker, Kasra Kurt, who otherwise served as a guitarist and vocalist in Palm. While the Philadelphia-based four-piece undertook bracing new adventures in guitar music, the side project was a venue for Kurt to indulge his taste for electronics and set stray ideas to simmer. When Palm called it quits in 2023, after ten years and three acclaimed albums, Kurt decamped to New York with Eve Alpert, the band’s co-guitarist/vocalist, and Matt Anderegg, who produced Palm’s final record. Playing together, the longtime friends and collaborators christened a new, three-headed incarnation of Kassie Krut.

MUSIC

Kassie Krut - Kassie Krut

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On Kassie Krut’s self-produced, self-titled debut EP, their approach is deceptively simple. With a constrained palette and a penchant for repetition, they find a world of opposing textures and timbres: electric and acoustic, synthetic and organic, smooth and frictive, terrestrial and celestial. Their scratch-made sounds melodize the hard-edged noise of daily life—car alarms, notification chimes, dial tones, feedback—setting it against stutter-step high hats, pots-and-pans percussion, and tensile bass tones that thrash around in the head like a rubber ball.

Limited to 300 copies.

out digitally on December 6th / physically out 2025

Format:

Kassie Krut - Kassie Krut (Expanded EP)

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Kassie Krut (Expanded EP) taps a hand-selected line-up to reimagine Kassie Krut’s “jagged, delirious” (FADER) debut. Alongside Panda Bear, Kassie Krut (Expanded EP) features contributions from DJ Travella, The JLB (of Kero Kero Bonito), COIDO, and Container. The remixes span from hyper-charged merengue-inflected bangers, breakneck beats, and cacophonies of noise. It’s an eclectic mosaic that follows a year in which Kassie Krut collected Best of 2024 praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Guardian, Mix Mag, NPR Music, Paste, Hearing Things and more.