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intereact!Kaki King
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 2008-03-11
Manufacturer: Velour Recordings
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Album Description
When Kaki King went into the studioto record the tracks for her fourth album, Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn (Dylan, Chris Whitley, Emmylou Harris), had one condition: "He said, `If someone can't be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don't want it on the record,'" King recalls with a laugh. And so the bar was set. Burn's mandate was just the push King needed to make her most accessible CD yet. "Even though half the tracks are instrumentals, I feel like I'm writing pop songs," she says. "We really concentrated on the melodies. Everything I write tends to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. I really wanted them to be memorable." That strict attention to song craft is a logical step for King, whose previous album, 2006's ...Until We Felt Red propelled this dazzling young guitar player and composer, known to instrumental music fans for her finger-picking, fret-slapping, and percussive thumping style, into previously uncharted indie-rock territory. Red found King branching out with songs that featured electric and pedal-steel guitar, horns, and, for the first time, vocals. Dreaming Of Revenge picks up that thread, continuing her evolution from acoustic instrumentalist to full-fledged, multi-faceted songwriter. Previously, her whispery, ethereal voice was used as mainly another element in her sonic arsenal. This time around, King put more effort into both her vocals and the lyrics she wrote for such deeply felt tracks as "Pull Me Out Alive," "Saving Days In A Frozen Head," "Life Being What It Is," and "2 O'Clock," the latter two of which she describes as break-up songs. "The words mean something now," she says. "They're actually telling stories."
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Superb [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I wanted this Cd for a while now and was excited to go get but it wasn't available at any of my local retailers. So I ordered it from Amazon and was so glad I did. Most CD's I have to hear a few times before I can get into it, but with this one I was hooked after the first listen. I also don't like to listen to something over and over again because I get tired of things pretty easily but I played this CD on repeat at least 6 times the second day I had it. I love all the songs on the CD which is something that is very hard for me to do. I definitely recommend this CD to anyone who likes ambient or atmospheric guitar sounds. It is awesome to chill out to.2) Best Yet [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Kaki King continues to grow as an artist and this is her best one yet3) Love Kaki [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love Kaki, so she can do no wrong. This album has a slightly darker tone and doesn't focus on her amazing guitar skills (though they are quite evident). This isn't "classic" Kaki, but I love it more and more every day.4) Kaki King - Wonderful As Always! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Pop Album? Whatever. Dreaming of Revenge is yet another phenomenal release by Kaki King. She has moved to adding lyrics to her songs, and has done so in an amazing way, but she hasn't completely abandoned her classic guitar-only sound. Kaki King is extremely talented and I could listen to her music for hours on end, and this album is no exception. Her sound is growing, and as a huge fan, I love it. I would definitely recommend this album, even if you aren't as big of fan as I am. Worth your money for sure!5) Continuing Excellence [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I have been a fan of Kaki King since her first album, "Everybody Loves You." She has changed quite a bit musically since then. "Everybody Loves You" and its successor, "Legs To Make Us Longer," are made up almost completely of solo guitar. "Everybody" was completely acoustic save for a hidden bonus track, and had no accompaniment whatsoever, unless you count Kaki's humming in the bonus track. "Legs" had more electric in it but still very limited accompaniment, with drums on "Doing the Wrong Thing." "Until We Felt Red..." was a huge departure from her previous albums. Much more jazzy and with percussion on nearly every track and vocals on quite a few tracks, it was, at first, a bit of a let down for me having grown used to her previous style. That did not last. I eventually came to see it as the most interesting of her albums. "Dreaming of Revenge" is a continuation of "Until We Felt Red...", but in a very different direction. All of the tracks have some sort of accompaniment, whether it is percussion, another guitar track or singing. The songs are structured much like rock songs, with heavier percussion than the light jazz percussion from "Red." "Pull Me Out Alive" is a perfect example of this, sounding like an export from the British rock scene, and an extremely catchy one at that. Even the instrumentals have a regular rhythm, but no two will sound the same. "Open Mouth" is a quiet, almost menacing tune with several violins accompanying Kaki's guitar, while "Air and Kilometers" is a more upbeat track that has a dreamlike quality, overlapping several guitar tracks with broken percussion. One thing that I love about this CD is that Kaki's acoustic playing, which just wasn't very present in "Red," is back in full force. The very first track, "Bone Chaos In the Castle," starts of with guitar tapping reminiscent of heavily acoustic tracks from her first two albums, such as "Close Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames" from Everybody and "Solipsist" from Legs. All in all, I am very happy with this album and I am even more excited to see what what Kaki comes out with next. If she follows her current trend, it will be unlike anything else we have seen out of her, unique and remarkably well put together.