Re: Katie Gately – Fawn/Brute (2023)

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:47 pm

Gone like a Tom Waits album played backwards.

by Nightjar Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:48 pm

Nightjar wrote:More than a touch of the 'exotique' Mahgrebi now.

Ofra Haza basically.

by Nightjar Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:49 pm

Phew!

It's over.

Thank teh Baby Jebu.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:49 pm

Walkman running out of power.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:49 pm

It is over.

It kept doing the same thing, over and over again until it ended.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:49 pm

I shall give it 2 stars.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:52 pm

That was alright. Very different to her early stuff, which was more Holly Herndon/Ambientish

Mind you, that was 10 years ago, hmn

by Nightjar Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:53 pm

That was a perfectly realised slice of hipster vapidity written and performed by someone who only knows how to write half a song, but, in turn, knows how to achieve "critical acclaim" from all of the e-hacks that proliferate out there on the Beige-Web of style-consensus.

★★★★★

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:56 pm

https://thequietus.com/articles/32784-katie-gately-fawn-brute-review

hmn

I can't tell if they liked it or not.

by Nightjar Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:56 pm

I think it would be a good idea to compile a book of the best Nu-HotW album reviews in a fine leather bound volume.

My favourite is that one where Wendi simply wrote:

"It has stopped - it shouldn't've started". Tee Hee

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:58 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/31/katie-gately-fawnbrute-review-beguilingly-disordered-pop

dunno

Quite enjoyable although I'd never heard of her before, reminded of Kate Bush in parts. Organised chaos I would say. Appears to only have a few thousand listeners on Spotify which makes her even more endearing - more of this sort of thing!

by Nightjar Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:59 pm

I mean, I can try my hardest to a Robert Christgau impression*, but Wendi has the apex predator instinct to go properly Shark Sandwich on an album.

*I'm not

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:06 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:Did PJ Harvey make music like this once? 3 albums ago?

🦘

Sorta…

Shove a couple of drum machines, and a load of pitch shifted vocals and other assorted digital studio noises.

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Katie Gately – Fawn/Brute (2023)

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