2024-06-21T15:19:11.603ZFrom left, Paul Bender, Nai Palm, Simon Mavin and Perrin Moss of Hiatus Kaiyote. (Rocket Weijers)People are always trying to fit Australian quartet Hiatus Kaiyote into a genre. There isn’t a fusion label they haven’t heard: future-soul, funk R&B, global folk, jazz funk, etc. In a way, all these labels are both correct and incorrect. Singer Nai Palm, keyboardist Simon Mavin, percussionist Perrin Moss and bass player Paul Bender have always played on the edge of genre. “Put us in all the boxes,” Mavin says with a laugh.Hiatus Kaiyote has spent the last decade in the music industry breaking most of those boxes apart. The rewards have been plentiful.If you think you haven’t heard of this band, you’re probably wrong, especially if you listen to rap. The band has been countlessly sampled by various artists — most notably by rap superstars Kendrick and Drake. Hiatus Kaiyote’s maximalist sound lends itself well to being reused in a genre like hip-hop that’s always innovating how sampling works. Palm attributes the sampling to their attention to detail, referring to her and her bandmates as “nerds” when it comes to production. “Instead of just, ‘Oh, we’ll just put that down, it doesn’t matter,’ everything is perfectly curated textually,” Palm says.Hiatus Kaiyote’s origin story begins when Bender saw Palm singing in a Melbourne bar and recruited her to start a band. In 2011, they invited fellow local musicians Mavin and Moss to join them. Their chemistry was immediately apparent. “The moment we played together … we had an out-of-body experience,” Moss says.When the band’s 2013 debut record, “Tawk Tomahawk,” was released, there was no way to predict the splash it was going to make. The soulful debut received shout-outs from legends like Prince, Erykah Badu and Questlove. The song “Malika” is a quirky amalgamation of many sounds: a grungy percussion, a bird’s sweet chirping and a stirring vocal performance from Palm. “Deep calls to deep raucous as thunder,” Palm sings. The band’s lyrics, like its music production, are almost impossible to define. Its lyrics are the opposite of the conversational style pop music is filled with; Hiatus Kaiyote isn’t afraid of diving deep into metaphorical waters.The band’s experimental ethos can be attributed to how its members navigate their collaboration. “The bigger picture is that what we do, the four of us, is way more effective than what one of these individuals could do,” Moss says. Maybe it takes more time to hone four people’s creative perspectives into a cohesive project, but that’s okay with Hiatus Kaiyote. “Everybody has to love what they’re doing, you know? No one’s forced to play something that they don’t love. And sometimes it takes a little bit more time to work out what that is, but it’s worth it,” Mavin says.The band’s new album, “Love Heart Cheat Code,” will be released June 28, and the quartet are eager to play the new stuff live. They have listeners — just like their influences — from all over, and they don’t take the magic of their audience coming together lightly. “One of the most beautiful things about touring is that I’m constantly impressed by how kind our fan base is,” Palm says. “So if there’s any anxiety about being around a lot of people, there’s a lot of love and community in our audience. And people look after each other, which is really cool.” July 1 at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring. livenation.com. $53-$72.50.