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Careful Of Your Keepers

by This Is The Kit

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Mattia Pelli
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Mattia Pelli It's just truly fantastic. Suspended atmospheres; A voice that is both intimate and simple. The second side with the songs all in acoustic allows one to realize the great work done on the arrangements in the first part. Some Fairport Connection electricity; some contemporary folk; very nice lyrics. A very great discovery for me.
HeidiHoh
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HeidiHoh Buy this album. Now! Dream the summer away, let you take away. Love the mellow drums on this. Jazz-folk, that's it. Let's thank Kate Stables for bringing her amazing talent to this genre. Listen to all her wonderful tunes on her new record. If you're an adult still falling in love with this life despite all the bruises, this is for you!
Favorite track: More change.
Grant Blankenship
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Grant Blankenship The relative quiet belies the underlying complexity which turns songs into rhythmic, melodic puzzle boxes. Another deeply engaging listen.
Matthew Batchelor
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Matthew Batchelor This whole album is like a breath of fresh air. Kate and the band are very impressive live, too. Favorite track: Inside Outside.
emulrenin
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emulrenin My only beef with this album is that it's over too soon. Favorite track: Careful Of Your Keepers.
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Dibs 04:27

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Singer-songwriter and composer, Kate Stables returns with a wondrous new This Is The Kit album, Careful of Your Keepers, that chronicles a world of mistakes and mishaps, cruel circumstances, and universe-driven surprises. It's a record that embraces the concept of outrospection – the idea that you get to know oneself by developing relationships and empathic thinking with others – and brings the Paris-based, UK born bandleader's signature ability to move swiftly between cryptic poetry to honest inquisition to the fore. 
 
Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), who deftly enhances the innate shared language that Stables has with her band, capturing beautiful instrumental performances while leaving the space required for her robust, silken voice to lead. The music here is daring and soft, cutting and warm, a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. Surviving change is a constant throughout this record and This is the Kit takes us to the front lines in “More Change,” where we celebrate the losing battle of fighting change with barbed dancing lyrics that whisk us from the mundane to the massive as a steady beat and delicate guitars wind in and out, down and around Stables words: “light bulb / life changing / found a friend…claw sanity back again.” The sonic brilliance always comes back to bite and the cascading melodies of “Stuck In A Room” plant the listener in the most familiar of recent quandaries, wanting to leave but being unable to. There are so many versions of “leaving” one might be attracted to in this disappointing modern age, and Stables works through them all. Conflict hits hard and with surprise but have the right people around you and you can escape by the skin of your teeth.

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released June 9, 2023

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This Is The Kit is the musical project of Kate Stables and whoever joins her. You thought you didn’t like the banjo but you were wrong pal. Listen as Kate rips forward with her hypnotic twang pattern and a voice of rare, unaffected beauty.

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