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This Is the Kit

Live at Minack Theatre (RSD 24)

Record Store Day 2024 - Seagrass Citrus LP - £27.99
On 19th May 2023 This Is The Kit played a double header at the stunning Minack Theatre in Cornwall, comprising of an afternoon matinee and a night time show.
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Wriggle Out the Restless (2023 repress)

limited Transparent orange lp - £24.99 | Buy
For fans of Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Beth Orton, Sharon van Etten, Bon Iver, Father John Misty, Joni Mitchell, Sam Amidon, Anais Mitchell.
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OFF OFF ON

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their most textured album to date, titk's dewy folk flows though a myriad of arrangements, from placid scenes populated by smooth vocals and delicate brass,...
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MOONSHINE FREEZE 

limited red lp + download - £21.99 | Buy
A distinguished set from an exceptionally talented musician - after a series of underrated gems, it’s time for her humble beauty to shine.

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Prize

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*Signed* Dinked 220 - hand numbered translucent "streetlamp orange" lp in alternate sleeve + wall planner (500 only) - £26.99
on her 5th album (& her 2nd dinked edition), rozi strips things back to their essence to reveal their innate beauty.
Gwenno

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A whole treasure chest cleaved from the Cornish language by way of the Welsh hills & Gwenno’s own sublime sense of melody.
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Careful Of Your Keepers
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  1. Goodbye Bite
  2. Inside Outside
  3. Take You To Sleep
  4. More Change
  5. This is When The Sky Gets Big
  6. Scabby Head and Legs
  7. Careful of Your Keepers
  8. Doomed Or More Doomed
  9. Stuck in a Room
  10. Dibs

cassette (side b) bonus tracks

  1. Goodbye Bite (acoustic)
  2. Inside Outside (acoustic)
  3. Take You To Sleep (acoustic)
  4. More Change (acoustic)
  5. This Is When the Sky Gets Big (acoustic)
  6. Scabby Head and Legs (acoustic)
  7. Careful Of Your Keepers (acoustic)
  8. Doomed Or More Doomed (acoustic)
  9. Stuck In A Room (acoustic)
  10. Dibs (acoustic)

 

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Careful Of Your Keepers

Rough Trade Records
  • *signed* lp

    Released: 9th Jun 2023

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    Released: 12th Jun 2023

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'Careful Of Your Keepers' is daring and soft, cutting and warm – a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions.

There’s a shared language of the band’s family experience that is as audible as ever in these recordings, which boast beautiful instrumental performances that still leave the nuanced space required for Stables’ vocals to live at the forefront.

“The album was nearly called Goodbye Bite. And in a way it still is,” says Stables. “I went for Careful of Your Keepers in the end. It’s one of my favourite songs on the album, a song that for me holds the general feeling of the album as a whole. The fragility of things. Of situations. Of relationships. Of humans. What we do to look after each other and ourselves. The passing of time and what that does to us, and how we live our lives going forward.” Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Rhys. Stables described his role as being a “tonesetter,” watchful and attentive to the band dynamics while making sure to always follow a hunch for where a new sound could find its place in the recording. “I’ve always loved the idea of working with him somehow, and when this album started getting planned, I realized that maybe this was my chance to reach out and see if he was up for working together,” Stables explains. “And he was! As if that wasn’t enough, he was also up for doing a bit of singing on the record, which totally blew my mind and made my year. His way with harmony and melody and the tone and quality of his voice is a totally killer combo.”

“They are so ridiculously talented – and every member is a great producer in their own right – so it was just a matter of trying to capture the magic they make when playing live together,” Rhys says of the recording process. “Their playing is by default so thoughtful and complimentary in terms of respect to each other’s parts and to the integrity of the songs themselves that it creates a beautiful foundation of often cosmic interplay that’s always in aid of Kate’s voice and vision as a songwriter.”

The album’s propulsive yet introspective lead single “Inside Outside” finds Stables as magnetic as ever, joined once again by her stalwart band of Rozi Plain (bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), and accented by a cascading horn quartet arrangement by Jesse Vernon.