Kelly Lee Owens (2017)

Oleic yeah

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Grimes if she had leaned into (rather than away from) the SAW 85-92 resemblances after Visions?

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hmmm

The colours the beauty the motion
The colours the beauty the motion
The colours the beauty the motion
The colours the beauty the motion

I really like this album a lot but I also think its a little underwhelming in spots. It relies on a very limited palette of sounds and it could do with a little bit more colour. "Lucid" and "CBM" are great moments but I'm not sure she quite gets the dynamics of dance euphoria - "Bird" in particular feels like it's pushing for some kind of rush but it just feels unfinished.

I've seen her post a few mixes where its clear she adores Tiga, and her vocals are all over the Daniel Avery album - I get the impression she likes that kind of sparse, lumpy, analogue techno a lot. I'd love to hear her apply this dream-pop ethereality to more maximalist influences.

good post boxedjoy.

I find it interesting she mentioned sound as a therapeutic vehicle in the pitchfork interview. The textures on this one do feel pretty healing, like the side-chained breathing on "Arthur" and its wobbling bass. The Oleic EP was more in one vein and in some ways I find it more hypnotizing and its sonic limits work more for me.

This LP is okay.

Ross have you ever heard this? It's a little more club-functional than this album but it's basically what I kinda hoped moments on this album would coalesce into resembling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfoiK__gOK4

Love KiNK.

good track

Bits of this album really remind me of that Pluramon album that had Julee Cruise on it. I like it better than that though.

^ oooh, love that album. If Time Was On My Side rules

Still my favorite album of the year. The fakeout on "Bird"—the lush intro, then the abrupt pivot when the bass kicks in—is such a glorious trick. It's such a minimalist album, yet she's hidden Easter eggs all over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tB1MVSoKKw

NEW ALBUM INNER SONG
COMING MAY 1ST 2020
http://kellyleeowens.lnk.to/innersong

ooooh, john cale guests

Yaaaaaa

"Melt!" is fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kW0vbVEIXE

new one "On" is really good:

https://youtu.be/53EWchMsij8

New album is *chef’s kiss*

Yeah great album! Was not expecting a Radiohead cover in there and it's actually surprisingly decent. 'Flow' reminds me of another song too... aphex twin maybe?

It's very natural sequel to her debut but you can tell how much she has grown as an artist from one album to another. She doesn't sound constrained about working with loops at all.

highlights on first listen: on, night, flow.

Wait, what? I need to spend more time on Spotify because this was an artist that Spotify Hipster Boyfriend was really very seriously "you *need* to hear this!!!" about, until I loved the first album. I feel remiss in not being on Spotify as much, to realise there is a new one and if it's got RH and AFX references I should be all over that!

LOL, I just looked at my Spotify Hipster Boyfriend Release Radar and yes, he's all "COME ON THERE'S A NEW KELLY LEE OWENS ALBUM AND ALSO DID YOU KNOW AVALON EMERSON HAS A NEW TRACK COME ON COME ON GO LISTEN GO GO GO!" and now I feel bad for not paying attention.

30 seconds into Melt! and I'm like "aw, yeah, this is what I wanted!" - then realise that it was a single and I had listened to it quite a bit and faved it when it was still a preview.

The mixture of extremely hard/minimal beats and very soft, cut up and mixed about girly vocals reminds me of Nost-era Ellen Allien in a strange but exciting way?

Really love this!

The one with John Cale comes *very* close to turning into Disintegration-era The Cure right before he switches to Welsh, no? At any rate, they should do a full-length collaboration; their voices would sound nice together on the same track

wow "Wake-Up" is a gorgeous closer

Was going to say how much this remimds me of Pluramon and then I saw I said the exact same thing about the last one. Sounds like a stronger album on first pass though, some really gorgeous moments

Just finished a first run through the new one, really liked it.

It's lovely.

Been bingeing this all weekend, it's great. I love the mixture of instrumental and vocal tracks, and the John Cale track works well.

so good

Melt!

new album is great

Never heard of her until she showed up on my FB feed the other day doing a live set on something called Hör, as in German for hear or listen. I’m a new fan.

Again parts of this are really nice and delicate but there are times I find myself wishing it would ramp up a little more. "Jeanette" is wonderful, reminds me of those Oni Ayhun singles

I liked her debut, but this one is just wonderful. Echoes of Dubnobasswithmyheadman here and there, or so it seems to me.

hadn't spinned this yet for some reason and felt very dumb about 30 seconds into "arpeggi" that i waited for so long lol

yeah you know pretty much immediately what you're gonna get and that it's gonna be really good

i love the sequencing. the cooldown tracks arrive just when they're supposed to

Inner Song is beautiful. Had it on repeat the whole afternoon.

New album out tomorrow with more of an ambient sound apparently

https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/lp-8

Cool, thanks!

Intrigued. She’s been consistently good so far.

not sure what i think of this new one yet but it is definitely a curveball. it's ambient, but not a very cuddly kind of ambient

Quite surprised at how industrial the first and last tracks are. Reminded of Jenny Hval.

coproduced by one of Hval's producers

I like this. After some of what I had read about it, I thought it might be more abrasive, but I guess those comments are just in relation to her earlier work. It’s not an “easy” listen I guess, but there’s plenty to draw you in.