"Tuck" sounds like Annie to me. Have to hear the whole album as that song unconvinced me, but the praise on the thread is encouraging.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
"Tuck" is, I suppose, the most "pop" song here, but even then only in a relative sense, and in context I think it takes on more of the dark vibe of the album than it may in isolation - her "Peek-A-Boo" perhaps.
I could come up with potentially dubious points of comparison for this album but they'd typically be theatrical nineties stuff (Ruby? The electronic parts of Tori Amos' late nineties work?) rather than 00s stabs at "perfect" pop.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Another reference point for me would be HEALTH's 'Death Magic' from last year.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
this album is magnificent
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 16 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
this isn't a precise comparison but the turn toward doom metal at the end reminds me of portishead's third
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 16 December 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
also i'm listening to this record hungover which is the most masochistic thing i've done in ages but it works really well this way too
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 16 December 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
Seems like a weird time to be hungover, for what it's worth.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 16 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
But hey, no judgment either.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 16 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
office holiday parties kill, miko
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 16 December 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
Coffee and crullers. And Katie Gately.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 16 December 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
Fucking good album
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Saturday, 17 December 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
This gets better the more I spin it. Will make my EOY list easy.
― octobeard, Saturday, 17 December 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
Re contemporary reference points Empress Of venns with this well. Not yet into anything on the album quite as much as 'Tuck' though.
― nashwan, Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
"Sift" is brazen experimental pop at its best. The closest analog I can think to this is Wendy Carlos' "Beauty in The Beast" by Wendy Carlos. She did a similar thing where she approached the funhouse of pop music through an esoteric lense.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Saturday, 17 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
^ sorry for double mention up there
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Saturday, 17 December 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Wendy Carlos Wendy
― avant-metal black metal illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Saturday, 17 December 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
I actually get a Tool/Maynard vibe on the title track.
― octobeard, Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
Love this album. 'Lift' is the best use of an eski bassline in ages.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
There are some fun videos on the Ableton site about how she uses field recordings in her work:
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/katie-gately-sampling-her-world/
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link
Color really holds up!
― imago, Monday, 5 November 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3z4VwHin98
she's back, in longform
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
yeah I heard the other day, liked it. i mean it takes her nine and a half minutes to get to the really good stuff but I guess that's the point
― imago, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
Fucking hell yes. Totally forgot about her! Thanks for this.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
I think the “takes her nine and a half minutes to get to the really good stuff” structure basically reflects her approach on “Pivot” and it works here for the same reasons it worked there, though otherwise this feels like a logical next step from the last album. It also feels like a 10 minute + epic inspired by the final minute of Kate Bush’s “Leave It Open”.
― Tim F, Thursday, 14 November 2019 07:55 (four years ago) link
She posted on social media yesterday some personal background to the song:
thanks so very much to everyone kindly sharing 10.5 minutes with me & ‘Bracer’ this past week. wanted to share a bit on how/why I made this track below in the off chance someone listening may have struggled with the same issues pic.twitter.com/OM6mXBlQ7T— Katie Gately (@kgsounds) November 13, 2019
― Jeff W, Thursday, 14 November 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
whoa 'Tower'
― imago, Friday, 14 February 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
no wait 'Flow'
some good stuff as per
― imago, Friday, 14 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
this fucking rules
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 14 February 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
as expected
Yes, this is good.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 14 February 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
She's great. On Houndstooth instead of Tri Angle, interesting.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
So far it sounds like what I wanted the Holly Herndon album to be.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
Was not super into her other album but I’m digging this so far.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
This is really good. “Bracer” was an under appreciated song last year out of context, but it sounds utterly monumental at the heart of the LP.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 15 February 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
Bracer is, ahem, bracing.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 16 February 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's sounding so much better now
― imago, Sunday, 16 February 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
xp -- artist's statement is really interesting because I like "Bracer" a lot but didn't get that from it at all
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 16 February 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
This is great. It's very captivating and focused. I've not untangled the "story" yet but she takes me into her world with ease. Will be spending more time with this for sure.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 17 February 2020 08:58 (four years ago) link
perfect album
― nxd, Monday, 2 March 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
It really is solid from start to finish. I need to revisit it; I like it much better than Color on only one listen. Color sounded a bit campy both with her vocals and the drums. This is focused, intense, and much more of a mature sound. It's often a trope, but for as much as tragedy often disrupts our world, it can also elevate an artist's muse to such heights of creation too.
― octobeard, Monday, 2 March 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
"Waltz" sounds like she's luring me into a pie tin
― lukas, Thursday, 5 March 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
It's very good. It isn't as good as Color imo, but subtler, toned-down refinements are in vogue so I won't be surprised if that emerges as the narrative
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 5 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS AMAZING
― imago, Friday, 31 March 2023 11:33 (one year ago) link
New KG?? Hadn't heard about this, just looking it up now.
― emil.y, Friday, 31 March 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Looking forward to hearing this.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 March 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Love this
― nxd, Friday, 31 March 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
Very intrigued by the concept, sounds bonkers and awesome:
"It is an album of two halves, that moves from the effervescence of early years to the defiance and turbulence of teenage angst.The first half channels inspirations from the busy and unsubtle dynamics of kids TV music and stomp and clatter of early Animal Collective albums, as in the brittle joys of "Howl". For the second half she was thinking about the brutalist sonic experiments of the British post-punk she obsessed over as a teenager, from PiL and Gang Of Four to This Heat, as in the industrial throb of 'Chaw' or the raw low end grafted onto sparse vocal lines in 'Brute', its massive basslines constructed from the manipulated rattling of cardboard shoeboxes.In typical maverick style, Gately plundered cartoon sound libraries magpie-like to build signature nests of sounds, integrating her own idiosyncratic sound recording strategies and sampling techniques, from shoeboxes to theremin and with a boisterous recurring saxophone."
The first half channels inspirations from the busy and unsubtle dynamics of kids TV music and stomp and clatter of early Animal Collective albums, as in the brittle joys of "Howl". For the second half she was thinking about the brutalist sonic experiments of the British post-punk she obsessed over as a teenager, from PiL and Gang Of Four to This Heat, as in the industrial throb of 'Chaw' or the raw low end grafted onto sparse vocal lines in 'Brute', its massive basslines constructed from the manipulated rattling of cardboard shoeboxes.
In typical maverick style, Gately plundered cartoon sound libraries magpie-like to build signature nests of sounds, integrating her own idiosyncratic sound recording strategies and sampling techniques, from shoeboxes to theremin and with a boisterous recurring saxophone."
― octobeard, Saturday, 1 April 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
I think this is the album I have been wanting Gately to make ever since “Pivot” AKA “what if Kate Bush’s “Leave It Open” but an entire genre?”
― Tim F, Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
This really is great. I don't know if I'll ever stop being a 'Pipes is the best' truther but I'm loving this right now.
― emil.y, Saturday, 1 April 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
meat is my jam
― nxd, Saturday, 1 April 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link