Beth Orton - Kidsticks

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:35
Size: 86,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:12)  1. Snow
(4:02)  2. Moon
(3:58)  3. Petals
(2:53)  4. 1973
(3:16)  5. Wave
(4:47)  6. Dawnstar
(4:22)  7. Falling
(3:01)  8. Corduroy Legs
(5:43)  9. Flesh and Blood
(1:16) 10. Kidsticks

Back in the 1990s, Beth Orton gained a rep as the comedown queen: her folksy music boasted an electronic edge and her involvement with Heavenly’s dance crew she collaborated with the Chemical Brothers ensured that her music could serve as a gentle passage back to reality. Since that heyday she has pursued more traditional singer-songwriter territory, but Kidsticks is a real reinvention: not so much a return to her electronic roots as a bold exploration of fresh territory. A collaboration with Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung, this sixth solo album embraces inventive rhythm patterns, tsunamis of synth and, on 1973, the metronomic influence of Kraftwerk. Dawnstar is particularly dreamy, a giant cloud of a song to lose yourself in. Such a radical redesign should be imposing, yet Orton’s vocals plaintive and soulful as ever still take centre stage.....More...https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/26/beth-orton-kidsticks-review-radical-reinvention-is-as-dreamy-as-ever

Kidsticks

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