Sat October 14, 2017
Live Music: Noise Pop presents This Is The Kit at Swedish American Hall, SF
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This Is The Kit at Swedish American Hall, SF.
"I've been thinking a lot about truth and storytelling and the way that stories and truth change over time according to who's telling them or who's listening to them," explains Kate Stables, the core around whom This Is The Kit has been built for the past ten years.
Now four albums in, the story of This Is The Kit is itself one of time and change and listeners. It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris, across tours and festivals and the admiration of critics and her peers, among them The National, Sharon van Etten, Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and now the host of A Prairie Home Companion), as well as Guy Garvey and much of BBC 6Music.
And the story has now led to Moonshine Freeze, This Is The Kit's Rough Trade debut, and her most sonically accomplished and compelling album to date. For their fourth LP, Stables wanted her band – Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, and Neil Smith – involved from the start. "They're three of my favourite musicians, and what they do with their separate projects and what they bring to the band is brilliant."
Stables once again enlisted John Parish (PJ Harvey, M. Ward, Perfume Genius) to produce; they had previously worked together on the band's 2008 debut. Parish's known brilliance for capturing a close-mic'ed vocal is felt here: Stables' uniquely-textured voice is brought to the fore, and – following the tradition of exquisitely strange troubadors like Karen Dalton, Will Oldham, or Robert Wyatt – is simply arresting.
Artists/Speakers: This Is The Kit.
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"I've been thinking a lot about truth and storytelling and the way that stories and truth change over time according to who's telling them or who's listening to them," explains Kate Stables, the core around whom This Is The Kit has been built for the past ten years.
Now four albums in, the story of This Is The Kit is itself one of time and change and listeners. It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris, across tours and festivals and the admiration of critics and her peers, among them The National, Sharon van Etten, Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and now the host of A Prairie Home Companion), as well as Guy Garvey and much of BBC 6Music.
And the story has now led to Moonshine Freeze, This Is The Kit's Rough Trade debut, and her most sonically accomplished and compelling album to date. For their fourth LP, Stables wanted her band – Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, and Neil Smith – involved from the start. "They're three of my favourite musicians, and what they do with their separate projects and what they bring to the band is brilliant."
Stables once again enlisted John Parish (PJ Harvey, M. Ward, Perfume Genius) to produce; they had previously worked together on the band's 2008 debut. Parish's known brilliance for capturing a close-mic'ed vocal is felt here: Stables' uniquely-textured voice is brought to the fore, and – following the tradition of exquisitely strange troubadors like Karen Dalton, Will Oldham, or Robert Wyatt – is simply arresting.
Artists/Speakers: This Is The Kit.
This Is The Kit at Swedish American Hall, SF.
"I've been thinking a lot about truth and storytelling and the way that stories and truth change over time according to who's telling them or who's listening to them," explains Kate Stables, the core around whom This Is The Kit has been built for the past ten years.
Now four albums in, the story of This Is The Kit is itself one of time and change and listeners. It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris, across tours and festivals and the admiration of critics and her peers, among them The National, Sharon van Etten, Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and now the host of A Prairie Home Companion), as well as Guy Garvey and much of BBC 6Music.
And the story has now led to Moonshine Freeze, This Is The Kit's Rough Trade debut, and her most sonically accomplished and compelling album to date. For their fourth LP, Stables wanted her band – Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, and Neil Smith – involved from the start. "They're three of my favourite musicians, and what they do with their separate projects and what they bring to the band is brilliant."
Stables once again enlisted John Parish (PJ Harvey, M. Ward, Perfume Genius) to produce; they had previously worked together on the band's 2008 debut. Parish's known brilliance for capturing a close-mic'ed vocal is felt here: Stables' uniquely-textured voice is brought to the fore, and – following the tradition of exquisitely strange troubadors like Karen Dalton, Will Oldham, or Robert Wyatt – is simply arresting.
Artists/Speakers: This Is The Kit.
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"I've been thinking a lot about truth and storytelling and the way that stories and truth change over time according to who's telling them or who's listening to them," explains Kate Stables, the core around whom This Is The Kit has been built for the past ten years.
Now four albums in, the story of This Is The Kit is itself one of time and change and listeners. It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris, across tours and festivals and the admiration of critics and her peers, among them The National, Sharon van Etten, Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and now the host of A Prairie Home Companion), as well as Guy Garvey and much of BBC 6Music.
And the story has now led to Moonshine Freeze, This Is The Kit's Rough Trade debut, and her most sonically accomplished and compelling album to date. For their fourth LP, Stables wanted her band – Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, and Neil Smith – involved from the start. "They're three of my favourite musicians, and what they do with their separate projects and what they bring to the band is brilliant."
Stables once again enlisted John Parish (PJ Harvey, M. Ward, Perfume Genius) to produce; they had previously worked together on the band's 2008 debut. Parish's known brilliance for capturing a close-mic'ed vocal is felt here: Stables' uniquely-textured voice is brought to the fore, and – following the tradition of exquisitely strange troubadors like Karen Dalton, Will Oldham, or Robert Wyatt – is simply arresting.
Artists/Speakers: This Is The Kit.
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