Name: Moonshine Freeze
Brand: This Is The Kit

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RT870-1

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Standard Red Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-07-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

883870087018

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

This Is The Kit

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Rough Trade

AOTM 2017

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/this-is-the-kit">This Is The Kit</a>, long a favorite of US musicians like <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-national">The National</a>, <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/sharon-van-etten">Sharon Van Etten</a>, and Chris Thile, is poised to break through to a larger fanbase beyond the music intelligentsia with the warm, inviting, and beautifully human Moonshine Freeze.

The band, led by Paris-by-way-of-Bristol vocalist and songwriter Kate Stables along with the core trio of Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, and Neil Smith, as well as a revolving cast of horn players, additional percussionists, strings, and others, worked with producer John Parish on Moonshine Freeze. Parish's known brilliance for capturing a close-mic'ed vocal is felt here: Stables' uniquely-textured voice is brought to the fore, and - following the tradition of exquisitely strange troubadors like <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/karen-dalton">Karen Dalton</a>, <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/bonnie-prince-billy">Will Oldham,</a> or <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/robert-wyatt">Robert Wyatt</a> - is simply arresting. Stables' chiaroscuro lyrics, and the detailed arrangements that have earned her fans in fellow musicians and thoughtful listeners, are here in full bloom, of course. But the songs themselves encompass more space and volume than ever before, with choruses at once inexplicable as well as singalong; the odd Motown-style horn chart cropping up here and there, in unexpected, but utterly welcome, interludes; sounds that veer from delicate to dusty to swelling in a moment.

Moonshine Freeze

Music US