Katy B - On A Mission (4 April 2011) - hype, anticipation &c

beautiful

Nice interview:

http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/13/give-it-time-katy-b-on-the-rebirth-of-house/

it's the way the melody on crying for no reason goes back up on "promises i could not KEEP?" and "i felt strong but i am breaking NOW?" that gives the whole thing a sing-songy, reading-the-sheet-music vibe that sort of kills the vibe for me, sadly

a very interior paranoid/euphoric club record

i've only listened to the continuous mix so far, it for sure has the feel of a ~monologue~, which is sure a thing

wait, it keeps going for another 20–30 minutes, why

why lex i never knew you held the rbma in such high r£gard

Number one in the album chart this week. Think On a Mission only missed out as it was released during Adele's never ending run in 2011. Crying went back into the top five too.

Wonder what they will pick as the next single from this. I'm thinking giving Aaliyah a proper release would give her another massive hit. Emotions would do well but might be seen as a bit too similar to Crying For No Reason.

Number one in the album chart this week.

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, February 16, 2014

you mean in the uk, i assume?

it would be fantastic -- and totally improbable -- for this album to go to no. 1 in the usa.

Oh yeah sorry should have specified that. Didn't think it's been properly released in the US yet.

does it even have a us release date yet? i was hoping it'd be out at the same time as in the uk etc but now that she has american management i guess they might be trying to make something happen with her over here before they put it out.

For discarding "Hot Like Fire" as a bonus track she should be committed.

Just thinking how lovely yet improbable it would be if the US release was with a rearranged track listing similar to the continuous mix.

OMG, this is the first time in I don't even know how long that I have bought the number 1 album the week that it came out.

How very... odd. But still, yay! I am still v v pleased, well done Katy B.

"Everything" is like, one bell sample away from being produced by Pantha Du Prince

I came here to say something similar to this! I think the instrumental could be a substantial song on it's own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKIf5C5xshU

that's ace

it is!

Damn, "I Like You" is pummeling me.

It's the ear grabber. I keep mumbling "I like you a little bit."

It was already my mantra, so

SFJ talked about Katy as a potential "sade for this generation" which seems really wrong to me

There's a voice on this album that sonically resembles Sade's, but it's not Katy's.

Yeah, the two vocal hooks that grab me after about 8 listens are "I like you (a little bit...)" and "I like ghetto, you like bougie..."

But you know who I miss on this record? I miss Oliviaaarrrr.

I miss her too, or at least, I miss the feeling of Katy as always surrounded by friends and just one part of a group. It felt like it was a big part of her appeal.

She still feels like she's surrounded by a group, but other clubbers seem to have become competitors rather than mates?

SFJ talked about Katy as a potential "sade for this generation" which seems really wrong to me

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:59 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

I mean Jessie Ware already exists so...

oboy, maybe i misremembered and he was talking about Jessie; that would make FAR more sense
nevermind

it was a disclosure piece so that would make more sense. my bad.

katy b as sade doesn't really make much of any sense but it's sort of interesting if you imagine the future of music as strictly beat based

ware as sade doesnt really fly either tbh imo

tell her that

would rather hear katy b/sade comparisons than jessie ware/sade ones because they'd be entertainingly nuts rather than lazily inaccurate. we went over jessie ware/sade at length in her thread, i believe

and that would be my cue i guess

hmm lemme think

yeah i mean i guess sade is kind of a bit of both, albeit on an ineffably higher celestial plane

like essentially ware is v much superficial haught/froidieur veiling a thumping heart, buffeted by the sweeping tides of wildest moomins

katy is more among the gurlz so to speak but shares a little of sade's sphinxlike quality all the same - her reports from the high street nightbus frontlines aren't dear diary stuff, there's a psychic armour there, and even in essaying the most vulnerable times there's a deliberate aspect, a writerly methodology that suggests closure, an emotional deletion process

would bet all my chips without question that ware is the funner night out

but either way as i say, mere jesters in the royal court of the king of sorrow tbh

Hmm. She may not indulge hysteria and keep her poise but I don't hear Sade as sphinx-like.

Annie Lennox is closer to sphinx.

eh praps not in a strictly corporeal sense; but sade is become a vessel or conduit for greater enigmas

This music board is not like other music boards.

...and thank fuck for that, eh.

yawn

fart

challenge lawro

Finally gotten around to Katy B, which is great. However, talk of this singer Ny upthread made me seek out that Split Endz vol. 2 mixtape, and it kinda blows my mind as I'm sitting here.

yeah that's a pretty special mixtape. can't believe how little she's lived up to her obvious talent since, either in terms of attention or, to be honest, material, bar a couple of singles here and there

http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/katy-bs-real-guide-to-uk-funky/

i've been spending some time w/ this album lately... "i like you" is a jam!! overall the album's been slower to grow on me than the debut but i can't quite articulate why yet

I just listened to this whole album and holy smokes it is really good!!

"5 am" and the first track ("next thing"? or something) are two of my most played songs this year

5 am is breathtaking.