I really like this album a lot but I also think its a little underwhelming in spots. It relies on a very limited palette of sounds and it could do with a little bit more colour. "Lucid" and "CBM" are great moments but I'm not sure she quite gets the dynamics of dance euphoria - "Bird" in particular feels like it's pushing for some kind of rush but it just feels unfinished.
I've seen her post a few mixes where its clear she adores Tiga, and her vocals are all over the Daniel Avery album - I get the impression she likes that kind of sparse, lumpy, analogue techno a lot. I'd love to hear her apply this dream-pop ethereality to more maximalist influences.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 3 September 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
good post boxedjoy.
I find it interesting she mentioned sound as a therapeutic vehicle in the pitchfork interview. The textures on this one do feel pretty healing, like the side-chained breathing on "Arthur" and its wobbling bass. The Oleic EP was more in one vein and in some ways I find it more hypnotizing and its sonic limits work more for me.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 3 September 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
This LP is okay.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 3 September 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Ross have you ever heard this? It's a little more club-functional than this album but it's basically what I kinda hoped moments on this album would coalesce into resembling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfoiK__gOK4
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 3 September 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
Love KiNK.
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 September 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
good track
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 3 September 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
Bits of this album really remind me of that Pluramon album that had Julee Cruise on it. I like it better than that though.
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 4 September 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
^ oooh, love that album. If Time Was On My Side rules
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Still my favorite album of the year. The fakeout on "Bird"—the lush intro, then the abrupt pivot when the bass kicks in—is such a glorious trick. It's such a minimalist album, yet she's hidden Easter eggs all over it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tB1MVSoKKw
― Evan R, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
NEW ALBUM INNER SONG COMING MAY 1ST 2020 http://kellyleeowens.lnk.to/innersong
― sombrerodetuned (sombrerodetune), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
ooooh, john cale guests
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
Yaaaaaa
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
"Melt!" is fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kW0vbVEIXE
― Indexed, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
new one "On" is really good:
https://youtu.be/53EWchMsij8
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
New album is *chef’s kiss*
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 28 August 2020 06:14 (three years ago) link
Yeah great album! Was not expecting a Radiohead cover in there and it's actually surprisingly decent. 'Flow' reminds me of another song too... aphex twin maybe?
It's very natural sequel to her debut but you can tell how much she has grown as an artist from one album to another. She doesn't sound constrained about working with loops at all.
highlights on first listen: on, night, flow.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 August 2020 06:27 (three years ago) link
Wait, what? I need to spend more time on Spotify because this was an artist that Spotify Hipster Boyfriend was really very seriously "you *need* to hear this!!!" about, until I loved the first album. I feel remiss in not being on Spotify as much, to realise there is a new one and if it's got RH and AFX references I should be all over that!
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 28 August 2020 08:14 (three years ago) link
LOL, I just looked at my Spotify Hipster Boyfriend Release Radar and yes, he's all "COME ON THERE'S A NEW KELLY LEE OWENS ALBUM AND ALSO DID YOU KNOW AVALON EMERSON HAS A NEW TRACK COME ON COME ON GO LISTEN GO GO GO!" and now I feel bad for not paying attention.
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 28 August 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link
30 seconds into Melt! and I'm like "aw, yeah, this is what I wanted!" - then realise that it was a single and I had listened to it quite a bit and faved it when it was still a preview.
The mixture of extremely hard/minimal beats and very soft, cut up and mixed about girly vocals reminds me of Nost-era Ellen Allien in a strange but exciting way?
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Really love this!
The one with John Cale comes *very* close to turning into Disintegration-era The Cure right before he switches to Welsh, no? At any rate, they should do a full-length collaboration; their voices would sound nice together on the same track
― rob, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
wow "Wake-Up" is a gorgeous closer
― rob, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
Was going to say how much this remimds me of Pluramon and then I saw I said the exact same thing about the last one. Sounds like a stronger album on first pass though, some really gorgeous moments
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Just finished a first run through the new one, really liked it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 August 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
It's lovely.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 28 August 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Been bingeing this all weekend, it's great. I love the mixture of instrumental and vocal tracks, and the John Cale track works well.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 31 August 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
so good
― Roz, Monday, 31 August 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
Melt!
― Indexed, Monday, 31 August 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
new album is great
― learned lasagna (||||||||), Thursday, 3 September 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
Never heard of her until she showed up on my FB feed the other day doing a live set on something called Hör, as in German for hear or listen. I’m a new fan.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
Again parts of this are really nice and delicate but there are times I find myself wishing it would ramp up a little more. "Jeanette" is wonderful, reminds me of those Oni Ayhun singles
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 13 September 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I liked her debut, but this one is just wonderful. Echoes of Dubnobasswithmyheadman here and there, or so it seems to me.
― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
hadn't spinned this yet for some reason and felt very dumb about 30 seconds into "arpeggi" that i waited for so long lol
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
yeah you know pretty much immediately what you're gonna get and that it's gonna be really good
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
i love the sequencing. the cooldown tracks arrive just when they're supposed to
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Inner Song is beautiful. Had it on repeat the whole afternoon.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
New album out tomorrow with more of an ambient sound apparently
https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/lp-8
― groovypanda, Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
Cool, thanks!
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
Intrigued. She’s been consistently good so far.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
not sure what i think of this new one yet but it is definitely a curveball. it's ambient, but not a very cuddly kind of ambient
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:13 (two years ago) link
Quite surprised at how industrial the first and last tracks are. Reminded of Jenny Hval.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
coproduced by one of Hval's producers
― rob, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
I like this. After some of what I had read about it, I thought it might be more abrasive, but I guess those comments are just in relation to her earlier work. It’s not an “easy” listen I guess, but there’s plenty to draw you in.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link