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I am kloot
Posted by woodface on 12 August 2010 - 10:03pm.
The latest 'I am kloot' album is really excellent, unlike most modern records the sound quality is very impressive. Certainly their best to date.
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Lived-in voice, great songs
I was slightly worried that they wouldn't live up to the pre-release hype, but Sky at Night is wonderful and I hope they get the success they richly deserve.
John Bramwell has such a great lived-in voice, so all the songs are tinged with passion and melancholy. He makes contemporaries such as Richard Hawley and Snow Patrol seem bland and contrived.
I remember when he was fresh-faced Johnny Dangerously, optimistically singing in Chorlton pubs about love. Now he sounds weary and cynical - and more truthful.
There's a wonderful song on the new LP, Fingerprints, about 'singing all his life...and that is fine' and it doesn't sound fine at all.
Best LP? First one's still my favourite but this one runs it close.
"...contemporaries such as Richard Hawley and Snow Patrol..."?
Ah, c'mon... Richard Hawley's a classier act than fecking Snow Patrol anyday.
Agree that the new I Am Kloot is a corker.
Agreed..
Hawley's a class act, Snow Patrol aren't fit to hold his plectrums.
I'd wouldn't
lump Richard Hawley in with bloody Snow Patrol. Have another listen to True Love's Gutter - there's nothing bland or contrived about that record, or any of his others.
Sorry - I've yet to hear a Hawley song I can remember
He sounds like a karaoke Matt Monro in need of decent material
Lived-in voice
sums it up brilliantly. I know of no other contemporary singer mining this particular vein of acoustic-based pop/rock who inhabits his lyrics so convincingly. He manages to sing in a cracked dulcet register that in less capable hands renders a voice flat and dull but through his delivery beguiles melodically and covets your interest without unnatural recourse to vocal stylisations that inevitably jar. He often cleverly sings before and after the beat on certain notes which in itself heightens your interest and adds to the confessional context of his lyrics.
You know what I mean. It just sounds great.
I gave it a first listen last night.
It'll get more attention over the next couple of weeks. Then, and only then, shall I pass judgement.
Fine set of tubes, though.
I put together a Kloot playlist ...
... a few weeks ago for a mate. I hadn't got the new album at the time so it's a bit light on that. Any glaring omissions?
Northern Skies
Ferris Wheels
Proof
Over My Shoulder
Avenue Of Hope
To You
The Same Deep Water As Me
From Your Favourite Sky
Maybe I Should
Twist
Untitled #1
Hey Little Bird
86 TV's
Life In A Day
3 Feet Tall
I Believe
Great Escape
Sunlight Hits The Snow
At The Sea
Morning Rain
Christ yeah!
Off the first album alone:
Bigger Wheels
No Fear of Falling
Tsk!
FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
;)
What?
No Mermaids?
Great band
Terrible name.
Here's what I thought about it:
http://tjdizzle.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/mercury-vs-neptune-part-2-i-am-...
First time listening to I Am Kloot, and I liked it much. Liked it a bit more than the new Fall record too. It's all in the blog post..
Only Role in Town
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