Thursday, August 24, 2017

This is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze

'This is the natural order of things. Change sets in...'

Another fine record to have come out in the last few weeks is Moonshine Freeze the new album from This is the Kit, the alias for British musician Kate Sables and the group of musicians she's gathered around her, over a number of years. Her fourth album in all, and her first since signing with Rough Trade, it seems like a point of arrival. Beautiful folky meditations on life somewhere in the tradition of Vashti Bunyan which sometimes meander off into jazz territory. There's a stillness at the heart of what's going on here, which is always Sables voice. Very immediate, very warm, very pastoral, always staying within the realm of immediately relatable human experience. As she sings on 'Riddled with Ticks' a particular highlight midway through the record, 'I know what is true...' 



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