Moonshine freeze

"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".