Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Sunergy is on Spotify now, but for some reason searching by that title didn't show it: had to look for 'FRKWYS' instead

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.

this is wayyy more up my alley than the other KAS stuff.

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.

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

colorful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goegShPV3i0

Nice. Is this a leftover from the EARS sessions?

listening to Ears and it really is a great album

new album in October ya'll

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.

radddddddd love her

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.

cool 360 degree video of her studio:

https://www.facebook.com/redbull/videos/10158787001250352/

A cover of Sade's "By Your Side"? Sure, why not

https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/by-your-side-sade-cover

Does that mean Jute Gyte is next for covering that song?

New album details/preorder

https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid

Wow, vocals front and center for a change. Wonder if the whole album will go for a more traditional songwriting approach.

another new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix9Kr5E7XdQ

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

oh nice

wow wow wow wow

i'm halfway through and excited to listen to this many more times this year.

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.

Super psyched, though EARS set a very high bar

she's great

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

it takes everything i like about EARS and magnifies it, and then stretches it out.

dang, so good

i'm gonna hold off of any additional listens until the LPs arrive in the mail

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, September 28, 2017 12:15 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

oh hey, pretty clever what she's done with the tracklist

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

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.

haha oh yeah! i remember them. but yeah can't even remember a song title now

Can't decide if I should listen to this before the show in a couple weeks or not.

> forgotten promise of early 2000s ~folktronica

XP/OT: Really wish Pooka had further pursued some of their sounds from Shift (2001)

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.

My favorite syntho weirdos KAS and John Maus dropping albums in the same month? Love it.

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

cover is dope imo, EARS cover was pretty sweet too

Mixed feelings listening to this. Which means I'll probably still be listening to it a year from now.

whoa! this record ROCKS

It's astonishing

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.

Her Baker's Dozen is pretty mellow:
http://thequietus.com/articles/23330-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-bakers-dozen-favourite-albums-the-kid

She did synths on the new Four Tet.

Wow this new record is great. Her vocals kinda remind me of Grimes, especially on "A Kid."

Is it all Buchla derived still?

claire hamill in that baker's dozen! hell yeah!

Claire hamill absolutely rules. Big influence on grimes tko

I'm pretty sure Buchla is the main synth on all of her stuff, but she throws in other synths as well.

I like that Claire hamill record a lot but I sure as fuck had to unfollow her twitter during the brexit vote