Kelly Lee Owens (2017)

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.