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This Is the Kit: Mortality Meets Music
23 Sep
Summary
- Sparse folk music explores mortality with a wizened sigh.
- Album features rootsy arrangements and wild, intimate music.
- Songs explore human nature's violent forms and impermanence.
Singer-songwriter Kate Stables, under the moniker This Is the Kit, has released Moonshine Freeze, an album characterized by sparse folk music that confronts the mysteries of mortality with a contemplative tone. The album showcases rootsy arrangements including banjo and horns, retaining an intimacy reminiscent of its predecessor while venturing into Stables' loosest and wildest musical territory to date. It bridges the morbid and the profound across 11 tracks.
Moonshine Freeze delves into characters facing consequences and grappling with dissonance, with Stables employing cryptic storytelling and essential lyricism. Songs often adopt the form of chants, eschewing traditional structures for an intuitive logic that mirrors the transitional states explored in her words.
Producer John Parish contributed to the album's starkness, while Aaron Dessner enhanced its texture with melodic guitar work. Despite its often intense themes, the album maintains a soothing effect, refining chaos into moments of beauty and exploring the inherent tension between life's precariousness and its resilience.
