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

yeah i've fully come round to "broken record". remixes from todd the god and jacques greene also pretty u&k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34uavBaXoW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3qYPokxKnY

there really isn't a single song on the album that i don't love to some extent - even the ones i think are slightly weaker still make me very fond of them somehow

you didn't like 'broken record' at first? that kind of makes me a little sad...

i did like it, i just didn't think it was AMAZING like "katy on a mission" and "lights on". that is rectified and i now think it's very AMAZING.

I'm not big on "Broken Record" as a whole but i LOVE the vocal breakdown bit.

i guess i can see it; it does remind me of radiohead a little bit

compare:

i would toss and turn at night with your voice in my head

vs.

miss could you stop the noise i'm tryna get some rest

it's a stretch for sure, but not that much of one

Zinc remix is nice too xps

yeah i had to come around on 'broken record' - looooove the ascending/descending vocal in the verses

compositionally, it's great! (plz do not read this as = soundz like Radiohead) I love the way the ending mantra repeated over and over again--a common trope in pop music--ties into the 'broken record' conceit, I love the R&B harmonizing towards the end (I assume this is what NumberNone is referring to as the 'vocal breakdown'), the little countermelodies underneath that long note in the chorus...I think the songwriting chops add a whole new dimension to Katy's style and keeps things from turning into "guess the beat" (though I like that game)

i love this woman -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/24/soundtrack-of-my-life-katy-b
altho she should really mention mamas gun over baduizm (not that baduizm is bad, its not)

be interesting to see what happens when she goes a bit R&B as she prob will (even if its just trying her hand at it, rather than coverting full on)

Is this going to get a US release any time soon?

'I used to like a lot of R'n'B, but when I analysed most of those songs, and looked at the chord progression or whatever, there wasn't much there'

bet lex would love this if anyone else said it

Seeing her tonight... sooo excited...

I don't think there's much in house music when you "look at the chord progression" either.

"Is this going to get a US release any time soon?"

its released worldwide on google.

What's that stuttering sample on 'Go Away' from? The King's Speech maybe?

i think i worked out it was the prodigy ("charly" iirc)

That kind of makes sense if it's Zinc I guess. I love that song.

yeah it's absolutely gorgeous

love when she gets all r&b diva towards the end

yeah it's charly, or def something off the first prodigy album - but i don't know if that in itself is a sample?

I remember I had loads of tapes of Red Alert from NYC and Solid Steel when I first moved to London and I remember that sample being dropped into the mix, I never found out where it was from.

standing at the bar
with my friend oliviaaa

so otm

it's the next single, i hope olivia gets a cameo in the video

Good, it's my favourite track on there I think. Although, I think I've exhausted this album for a bit now.

It's still holding up for me - helps that the songwriting is so strong.

fyi she kills it live - just so much natural casual charm on stage, nothing overdone

olivia revealed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4T7y7Yxk0&hd=1

great video

YES @ shot of ddr/dancing stage machine

love it

I'm not sure anyone has pointed out the greatness of the line "now I love a bad boy mentality/ but I don't want to be visiting no jail"

You already did man. It is great though.

ok ha

Yeah, like the video. Love the way it just takes place in a pool bar, not at China Whites or whatever.

so finally getting around to actually listening to this, and it's...great. Like, really great.

I haven't heard all of it yet, but it sounds like it's better than Eye Contact, which I didn't expect, like, at all.

"lights on" is randomly being promoted by vevo on this "i love new music" youtube sidebar. i suspect it's the first exposure many americans are getting to katy b, and sadly a large number of the comments are negative and the like-to-dislike ratio is alarmingly low :'(((

anyway i was wondering if perhaps this random e-promotion meant that she was going to get something of a 'push' stateside, but considering some of the artists featured alongside her i would guess not

where are you seeing this, tel? the one I'm liking has a 20,000-to-1,000 like ratio, which seems good to me...

tbh, I really do like Lights On, but I'm not sure if it would be my choice to break Katy B into the US; I do think both Broken Record & Easy Please Me have the potential to dominate American dancefloors though...

(maybe not the dancefloors, too midtempo? I don't know anything about this...)

easy please me - like the track but honestly don't get the love for the video. I found it sooo cringey and hard to watch.

Video's okay; who's the MIA lookalike; I think I spied her in the Broken Record vid too...?

Royal T remix

http://soundcloud.com/royaltmusic/katy-b-easy-please-me-royal-t

This is more like it, at last a bit of energy!

Naw, the laid-back voibes are totally the point imo

I found the album kinda boring, the bangers don't bang they just kinda clunk and the other tracks are good but don't bang enough despite sounding like thy're kinda aiming for that. Nothing reaches the energy of As I or Tell Me, those two hit that ballance really well. Oh I kinda like Lights On... But thats about it.

I had to listen to the whole of the magnetic man album last night. Just imagine

I used to like magnetic man and the solo production work of the 3 dudes responsible for that shit.saw them live a few years back etc.just imagine.

Okay that royal t mix sounds lovely

Magnetic Man material is kind of entertainingly bland for mainstream appeal imo

I wish that Royal T mix had gone for limber 2-step all the way through because I was really enjoying the verses but that lumpen bass stodge in the chorus kills it stone dead.

I can see why that bass might put some off yeah. I'd like to hear it on a nice club system to see how well it works Royal T tracks usualy sound pretty hefty/viseral in that department. I like it when he goes for that 2-step vibe, he did a pretty fun mix recently on that tip too: http://xpldr.tumblr.com/post/5645159786/listen-royal-t-i