Yeah, the official release date is September 16th... I pre-ordered it via Bandcamp, and for some reason got the physical CD in mail yesterday already, even though you can't yet download the digital version on the Bandcamp page.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 10:41 (seven years ago) link
catching ciani tonight at roulette. finally a brooklyn modular show i can get excited about
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
Super psyched for Sunergy, I know I'm going to love it...
― ǂbait (seandalai), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
I've been listening to this more, and I really like the (apparently) improvised nature of the music, you never know where it's gonna go next. I mostly listen to ambient/space music informed by techno and house and other forms of dance music, but this seems to sidestep that lineage completely, possibly because Ciani predates it. So it's nicely unpredictable.
If you could make one complaint, it's that the soundworld on all three tracks is pretty samey, I guess because most of the music was done with the two Buchlas Smith and Ciani played. But it's a trippy world to dive into!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 September 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
Man, I love the synth twitches on the first track starting around 14:45 minutes... Like aliens burping through 303s.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 September 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link
sweet video, looks like they had fun making this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Xaw5r43n0
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 15 September 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/16/don-buchla-modular-synthesizer-pioneer-dies-aged-79
https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia/status/776897971078045697
― Jeff W, Saturday, 17 September 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Nobody posted this yet apparently - limited release on a tape compilation from 2015, so it's understandable if it was missed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDzKWqqSTvs
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 17 September 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Sunergy is on Spotify now, but for some reason searching by that title didn't show it: had to look for 'FRKWYS' instead
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
One spin in after getting this last night – and it's pretty much exactly what I wanted/expected, and that's a great thing. Love this.
― dronestreet, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
this is wayyy more up my alley than the other KAS stuff.
― esempiu (crüt), Friday, 7 October 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
great last night in london, when it got started...
(i think the support was a dj, but there was nothing to say that the special guest dj had taken over from the bloke playing records beforehand. so it just felt like we were being kept waiting for 2 hours, 200 of us crammed into a railway arch.)
she came on at 9:30, played for 50 minutes or so. not sure how much was sequenced or how much of it was improvised. seemed to be playing songs, short bits with vocals with some longer (better) bits in between.
― koogs, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
Sounds pretty similar to her set in SF a couple weeks ago. Would love for her to just jam for an hour, but then I'm currently in love with Sunergy soooo
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
colorful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goegShPV3i0
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
Nice. Is this a leftover from the EARS sessions?
― Jeff W, Friday, 28 October 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
listening to Ears and it really is a great album
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 31 October 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
new album in October ya'll
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Saturday, 6 May 2017 07:46 (seven years ago) link
o wow amazing news. caught her show at knockdown in brooklyn, one of the best live experiences i've had in a while. love her music.
― tomorrow, Saturday, 6 May 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
radddddddd love her
― nice cage (m bison), Saturday, 6 May 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
Saw her in SF. She sold her swag directly from the stage after. Not ashamed to say I fell in love while handing her cash for a shirt. She's a really lovely person in addition to being an incredible musician.
― octobeard, Monday, 8 May 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
cool 360 degree video of her studio:
https://www.facebook.com/redbull/videos/10158787001250352/
― Moodles, Monday, 8 May 2017 03:04 (seven years ago) link
A cover of Sade's "By Your Side"? Sure, why not
https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/by-your-side-sade-cover
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Does that mean Jute Gyte is next for covering that song?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
New album details/preorder
https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
Wow, vocals front and center for a change. Wonder if the whole album will go for a more traditional songwriting approach.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
another new one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix9Kr5E7XdQ
― Moodles, Saturday, 19 August 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
Album is available to stream: http://www.npr.org/2017/09/28/553692113/first-listen-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20170505
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 28 September 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
oh nice
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 28 September 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
wow wow wow wow
― Evan R, Thursday, 28 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
i'm halfway through and excited to listen to this many more times this year.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
this is probably the worst possible way to frame this praise, but the ending stretch of "until i remember" is like the forgotten promise of early 2000s ~folktronica~ gradually emerging from behind the sun, like if planet X was actually real.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Super psyched, though EARS set a very high bar
― Moodles, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
she's great
― nomar, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
I'll have to spend some more time with EARS. Didn't do all that much for me at the time but this new one sounds so playful and effortless. She does all these wonderful things like it's nbd
― Evan R, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
it takes everything i like about EARS and magnifies it, and then stretches it out.
dang, so good
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
i'm gonna hold off of any additional listens until the LPs arrive in the mail
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
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i know what you mean, shit like Caribou and Four Tet? struggling to think of other examples but yeah "folktronica" was absolutely a thing & yes it was forgotten
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 September 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
oh hey, pretty clever what she's done with the tracklist
― imago, Thursday, 28 September 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Tuung is always the band I think of when this label comes up, but I can't remember now how a single one of their songs goes.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 28 September 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
haha oh yeah! i remember them. but yeah can't even remember a song title now
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 September 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
Can't decide if I should listen to this before the show in a couple weeks or not.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 29 September 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
> forgotten promise of early 2000s ~folktronica
XP/OT: Really wish Pooka had further pursued some of their sounds from Shift (2001)
― prelude to abjection (Sanpaku), Friday, 29 September 2017 08:37 (six years ago) link
Which was a remix album by Brian Duffy? See also "Ovum", which is probably a better precursor to KAS, only with FM rather than analog synths.
― prelude to abjection (Sanpaku), Friday, 29 September 2017 08:44 (six years ago) link
My favorite syntho weirdos KAS and John Maus dropping albums in the same month? Love it.
― octobeard, Saturday, 30 September 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing this but damn she went from having an incredible album cover with EARS to having an absolute eyesore of a cover here
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 30 September 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
cover is dope imo, EARS cover was pretty sweet too
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
Mixed feelings listening to this. Which means I'll probably still be listening to it a year from now.
― beard papa, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
whoa! this record ROCKS
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
It's astonishing
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
This is even more florid and pastoral than EARS, like bits of it are like being in the main village in Zelda or something, but then she'll suddenly overturn it with an abrupt tonal shift or a rush of clanking noises. There's enough grit in there to prevent it becoming cloying - the difference between this and the new Four Tet in that regard.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link