Music / folk

Moonshine freeze


Reviews (4)


Pitchfork

d. 26. July 2017

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Sam Sodomsky

d. 26. July 2017

"With her new record as This Is the Kit, singer-songwriter Kate Stables offers a collection of sparse folk that takes on the mysteries of mortality with a wizened sigh".


Record collector

468 (2017 July)

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Jamie Atkins

468 (2017 July)

"Rough Trade have shown impeccable timing in signing This Is The Kit up, this is their finest work to date".


Drowned in sound

d. 4. July 2017

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Ellen Peirson-Hagger

d. 4. July 2017

"After three previous albums, Moonshine Freeze is finally the sound of a storyteller of a musician finding her niche. And it is a joy to behold".


fRoots

2017 October

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Kitty Macfarlane

2017 October

"There's a playful and childish naïveté to Kate Stables' songs - wide-eyed, guileless, inquisitive ... The songs on "Moonshine Freeze" nostalgically echo children's games and chants, the title track coming from a playground clapping song. Yet there are sinister and disorderly whispers at play: superstitions, secrets, folklore and incantations ... Kate's confiding vocals are constant and consoling, and no measure of menace in the band arrangements or lyrics can dampen the familiar steadiness of her voice murmuring in your ear. She coos "Probability-wise one of us has to die/But by the same reckoning, it will be fine" over teetering electric guitar and shuffling percussion. It's her close voice and its constant, cool indifference, and the recurring of her steady banjo riffs, that provide such compelling contrast to the vast and spacious rhythms of her band and John Parish's stark production".