Careful Of Your Keepers

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This Is The Kit have announced a new album, Careful Of Your Keepers, their follow-up to 2020’s Off Off On. This one was produced by Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys.

Line Up - Sharon Van Etten + This Is The Kit + Night Beds". All Tomorrow's Parties . Retrieved 26 February 2020. This Is the Kit perform regularly in various configurations from duo to quintet with the core band consisting of Kate Stables (vocals / guitar / banjo), Rozi Plain (bass / vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums). [19] It'd be a pointless compartmentalising exercise to still call This Is The Kit a "folk" band". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 26 February 2020. This Is The Kit, the group led by Paris-based bandleader Kate Stables, today announced the band’s new albumCareful of Your Keepers–produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)–will be released on June 9 th, 2023, via Rough Trade Records. 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. In 2006, record label Sunday Best Recordings included the band's song "Two Wooden Spoons" in its Folk Off compilation album alongside artists including Animal Collective, Tunng and Vashti Bunyan. Their song was noted as a standout with Drowned in Sound stating: "its personal touch is largely what makes This Is The Kit the British highlight, not to mention that of the compilation as a whole". [8] Following that, Sunday Best went on to release "Two Wooden Spoons" as a 7" single with the B side "Come a Cropper" in 2006. [9]Goods that are faulty or sent in error must be returned to Crash Records Limited, 35 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PU within 7 working days of the item being received by the customer. This Is The Kit, the group led by Paris-based bandleader Kate Stables, today announced the band’s new album Careful of Your Keepers–produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)–will be released on June 9 th, 2023, via Rough Trade Records. 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. Kate Stables seems almost to be a force of nature. She bends music to her will, creating and refining contexts almost at will. With Careful of Your Keepers, she has created her own magic lantern, ever changeable, ever intriguing. This is the Kit are not a band of the moment; they own the moment. The questions multiply, yet answers are perhaps simpler than one might imagine. Stables is simply one of those artists not content to sit on her laurels. She is constantly reinventing her music, challenging the conventions without ever seeming to overstep. With the help of Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys on production duties, This is the Kit defies the assumptions of what is typically done in the field of contemporary folk music.

Careful Of Your Keepersis 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 calledGoodbye Bite. And in a way it still is,” says Stables. “I went forCareful 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.”Critique du concert de Herman Dune + This is The Kit le 19 février 2013, Le Divan du Monde, Paris, par Julyzz". ConcertAndCo (in French) . Retrieved 26 February 2020. The band received a boost in attention in August 2015 when BBC iPlayer debuted an episode of the documentary series Music Box devoted to This Is The Kit's music and influences. [5] The show was hosted by Garvey, who argued that their second album, Wriggle Out the Restless, deserved a Mercury Prize nomination. [6] 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.

Since 2010, the band has recorded a Blogothèque Take-Away Show [20] video session and been played regularly on BBC Radio 6 Music. [21] The band has toured regularly in support of acts including The National, [22] Sharon Van Etten, [23] Iron & Wine [24] and Herman Dune. [25] Discography [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] 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.” Berlin / Admiralpalast / Iron & Wine + This Is The Kit". It's only MUSIC, but LIVE. 6 June 2013 . Retrieved 26 February 2020. This Is The Kit's first album, Krülle Bol (2008), [10] was produced in Bristol by John Parish, a musician best known as PJ Harvey's longtime producer. It was originally released on the French label Microbe but has since been reissued on the band's own imprint. [11] Careful Of Your Keepers' is daring and soft, cutting and warm – a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions.Marwood, Ben. "Folk-Off Review". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012 . Retrieved 20 December 2012. This Is The Kit – Wriggle Out The Restless". magic, revue pop moderne (in French). 28 June 2011 . Retrieved 26 February 2020. This Is The Kit were a long-time favourite among various BBC Radio 6 Music DJs, which is where the musician and presenter Guy Garvey discovered them, playing their music frequently. Fellow 6 Music DJs Lauren Laverne, Radcliffe & Maconie, Cerys Matthews, and Mary Anne Hobbs have also been major supporters; DJ Marc Riley has hosted the band for three BBC live sessions to date. [2] BBC Radio 1 has offered the band spot plays via DJs Huw Stephens, Jen & Ally, and Phil Taggart. [ citation needed] The band also appeared in the BBC One television series Wanderlust, playing in a night club that Toni Colette's character Joy attended. [7] Recording history [ edit ]