PopGod legend in family affair tour shocker!!
Summer Tour Sees Green Man festival dead certs fetch anglo-Parisian folk drama back to Blighty
Featuring the Morningstar maestro and former Moonflowers/Praise Space Electric child prodigy Jesse D. Vernon, but more prominently showcasing the breathtaking vocal gift and creativity of Kate Stables, THIS IS THE KIT are seasoned purveyors of festival folk with immense psychedelic credentials, currently back on British soil for the summer.
The music industry is a risky enough business you might think, without taking a further huge gamble on the weather this side of the channel but nevertheless, having temporarily turned their backs on their Parisian home, the duo are bracing themselves for the inevitable drop in temperature having already got the Folk out of France in order to showcase their entrancing and organic sound on home soil.
Choosing a UK tour over a series of dates in France is absolute sunshine suicide, but TITK are set for a summer spent chasing rainbows to within spitting distance of John O’Groats as they follow the festival circuit through mud and rain on a constantly altering and partially improvised tour that will take in Berwick and Norwich amongst other places and see the pair wander aimlesslike, as far as Aberdeen. Yes, it’s the kind of route that only an idealistic daydream-believer would choose, but there’s a self-aware method in their madness that if their debut album is anything to go by, should see some strong folk traditions traced right back to their geographical roots.
‘Krulle Bol’ is enchanting throughout. Infused with a delicate and fragile beauty that’s borne out of wonderful simplicity, TITK’s approach is minimalist in every sense of the word: acoustic guitars, ukulele and odd percussion form the basis of a series of repetitive two-chord jams that drop deliciously into a trance-inducing folk groove that’s as warm as it is eccentric.
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As the record gets a grip, Stables’ odd, but appealing thoughts and dreams delve into the past, present and future as an half-imaginary world unfolds. Traditional folk thinking sinks occasionally into the mythological, but opening track ‘Our Socks For Evermore’ is a self-explanatory celebration that makes no sense and perfect sense all at once, as her voice floods the memory with emotion
If, midway through the album, Vernon’s subtle electric hooks defy the gravity so strikingly intonated by the vocal mantras during the heavy soul of ‘With Her Wheels Again’, then the bittersweet beauty of the album’s dizzy, melancholic centrepiece ‘Two Wooden Spoons’ positively soars and dips on the strength of Stables’ utterly gorgeous voice as it resonates perfect heartbreak. By the time the record spins to its conclusion, your thousand-yard stare will be awash with peripheral chimes and your head full of a million ideas.
Whether you have to create (or wait for) a diversion in TITK’s summer tour path or make a journey of your own, this writer strongly recommends that you make every effort to catch this unique creative force in action. This incredibly absorbing record is a must-listen release with mass appeal. Those with any spiritual sense in particular really should make every effort to hear this.
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