Off Off On
by This Is The Kit
Saint Aardvark
Saint Aardvark
Can't stop listening to this album.
Favorite track: This Is What You Did.
T-Bone
T-Bone
This is a beautiful album, start to finish. Such a special voice, rhythm of lyrics, and placement of instruments (love the horns, woodwinds). On repeat whenever I'm in the mood for lovely, chill music.
John Galus
John Galus
The arrangements build deeply layered textures that add emphasis to the emotion in the music. I've never heard anything quite like it, but it still feels warm and familiar. A truly blissful listening experience start to finish
Favorite track: Coming to Get You Nowhere.
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Found Out
03:29
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Started Again
04:37
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This Is What You Did
03:12
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No Such Thing
04:40
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Slider
04:06
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Carry Us Please
04:13
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Off Off On
03:19
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Shinbone Soap
04:18
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Was Magician
04:26
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11. |
Keep Going
06:39
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about
Kate Stables’ group This Is The Kit have created a name for themselves with songs that untangle emotional knots and weave remarkable stories. Their second album for Rough Trade Records, Off Off On, (October 23, 2020) is a beautifully clear distillation of Stables’ songwriting gifts. Recorded just before the pandemic forced the world to hit the pause button, the songs are exquisitely astute, the album title suggesting life’s glitchy rhythms – “two steps backwards, one step forwards… Swinging between good places and bad places inside and out.”
Off Off On is about “events catching up with you and how you catch up with events,” explains Stables, “not so much mood swings as brain swings, the here and there that your brain tugs you on.” Stables’ words – lyrical but always lucid – chime with a world tilted on its axis, from the flickering ‘This Is What You Did’, a testament to what Stables calls the “night-time mind race and morning day dread”, to the uninvited vampires hovering on the threshold in ‘Shinbone Soap’. The title track is about “a friend who got very ill and then didn’t make it. But I remember visiting him in hospital and seeing everything differently there. The people working there, the other visitors, the buildings, the grounds.”
By the end of 2018, This Is The Kit had finished touring their last album, Moonshine Freeze, and begun to write Off Off On when Stables was invited to join The National on the road for multiple tours and TV appearances – a continuation of her contributions on their album I Am Easy To Find. “I think it did me loads of good,” laughs Stables. “It was so brilliant when I was writing to be away from my songs and the responsibility of being in charge of a band or a project - just to forget about that for a while and be a minion in someone else’s band was brilliant, I loved it. I think it really helped my writing and my getting through whatever I needed to get through.”
As the songs coalesced, she decided to work on the new record with producer Josh Kaufman, a New York-based musician, Hold Steady collaborator and member of Bonny Light Horseman and Muzz. Stables first met him when working with Anais Mitchell on a cover of an Osibisa song, their paths crossing again at Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner’s PEOPLE residencies in Berlin and Brooklyn. “We were on the same page about a lot of musical ideas, as well as doing things I definitely wouldn’t do musically,” Stables says. “It was a lovely mixture of wow, you’re exactly in my brain and exactly at the opposite end of my brain.” After the band – completed by Rozi Plain (bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), Jesse D Vernon (??), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), – rehearsed the songs at an isolated cottage in Wales, they headed to Wiltshire’s Real World Studios in the UK, finishing just in time for everyone to get home for lockdown.
The result of their work together is Off Off On. Richly illuminating and acutely sensitive to the pulses and currents of life, the album shows This Is The Kit overflowing with ideas, energy and power.
Off Off On is about “events catching up with you and how you catch up with events,” explains Stables, “not so much mood swings as brain swings, the here and there that your brain tugs you on.” Stables’ words – lyrical but always lucid – chime with a world tilted on its axis, from the flickering ‘This Is What You Did’, a testament to what Stables calls the “night-time mind race and morning day dread”, to the uninvited vampires hovering on the threshold in ‘Shinbone Soap’. The title track is about “a friend who got very ill and then didn’t make it. But I remember visiting him in hospital and seeing everything differently there. The people working there, the other visitors, the buildings, the grounds.”
By the end of 2018, This Is The Kit had finished touring their last album, Moonshine Freeze, and begun to write Off Off On when Stables was invited to join The National on the road for multiple tours and TV appearances – a continuation of her contributions on their album I Am Easy To Find. “I think it did me loads of good,” laughs Stables. “It was so brilliant when I was writing to be away from my songs and the responsibility of being in charge of a band or a project - just to forget about that for a while and be a minion in someone else’s band was brilliant, I loved it. I think it really helped my writing and my getting through whatever I needed to get through.”
As the songs coalesced, she decided to work on the new record with producer Josh Kaufman, a New York-based musician, Hold Steady collaborator and member of Bonny Light Horseman and Muzz. Stables first met him when working with Anais Mitchell on a cover of an Osibisa song, their paths crossing again at Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner’s PEOPLE residencies in Berlin and Brooklyn. “We were on the same page about a lot of musical ideas, as well as doing things I definitely wouldn’t do musically,” Stables says. “It was a lovely mixture of wow, you’re exactly in my brain and exactly at the opposite end of my brain.” After the band – completed by Rozi Plain (bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), Jesse D Vernon (??), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), – rehearsed the songs at an isolated cottage in Wales, they headed to Wiltshire’s Real World Studios in the UK, finishing just in time for everyone to get home for lockdown.
The result of their work together is Off Off On. Richly illuminating and acutely sensitive to the pulses and currents of life, the album shows This Is The Kit overflowing with ideas, energy and power.
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released October 23, 2020
2020, 2020 Rough Trade Records Ltd
2020, 2020 Rough Trade Records Ltd
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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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May 19Penzance, UK
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Jul 14Hatfield, UK
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Jul 16Hatfield, UK
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Jul 28Thirsk, UK
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Sep 20Borgerhout, Belgium
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Sep 21Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Sep 22Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Sep 24Copenhagen, Denmark
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Sep 26Berlin, Germany
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Sep 27Leipzig, Germany
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Sep 29Munich, Germany
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Sep 30Zürich, Switzerland
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Oct 01Lyon, France
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Oct 03Lille, France
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Oct 04Reims, France
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Oct 05Audincourt, France
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Oct 06Paris, France
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Nov 08Worthing, UK
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Nov 09Cambridge, UK
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Nov 10Reading, UK
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Nov 11Cardiff, UK
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Nov 12Birmingham, UK
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Nov 14Gwynedd, UK
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Nov 16Cork, Ireland
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Nov 17Galway, Ireland
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Nov 18Dublin, Ireland
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Nov 19Belfast, UK
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Nov 21Edinburgh, UK
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Nov 22Gateshead, UK
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Nov 23Leeds, UK
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Nov 24Manchester, UK
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Nov 25London, UK
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Feb 03Bristol, UK
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