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Dark Green LP –  Cat:RT0414LPE   Barcode:191402041408
Standard Black LP –  Cat:RT0414LP   Barcode:191402041415
CD –  Cat:RT0414CD   Barcode:191402041422
Cassette –  Cat:RT0414MC   Barcode:191402041446

Record Label: Rough Trade Records

Format: Album

Genre: Folk, Indie & Alternative

Release Date: 09/06/2023

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Description

This Is The Kit, the group led by Paris-based bandleader Kate Stables, today announced the band’s new album Careful of Your Keepers–produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)–will be released on June 9th, 2023, via Rough Trade Records. The album’s propulsive yet introspective lead single “Inside Outside” finds Stables as magnetic as ever, joined once again by her stalwart band of Rozi Plain(bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), and accented by a cascading horn quartet arrangement by Jesse Vernon.

Careful Of Your Keepers is daring and soft, cutting and warm–a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. There’s a shared language of the band’s family experience that is as audible as ever in these recordings, which boast beautiful instrumental performances that still leave the nuanced space required for Stables’ vocals to live at the forefront. “The album was nearly called Goodbye Bite. And in a way it still is,” says Stables. “I went for Careful of Your Keepers in the end. It’s one of my favourite songs on the album, a song that for me holds the general feeling of the album as a whole. The fragility of things. Of situations. Of relationships. Of humans. What we do to look after each other and ourselves. The passing of time and what that does to us, and how we live our lives going forward.”

Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Rhys. Stables described his role as being a “tonesetter,” watchful and attentive to the band dynamics while making sure to always follow a hunch for where a new sound could find its place in the recording. “I’ve always loved the idea of working with him somehow, and when this album started getting planned, I realized that maybe this was my chance to reach out and see if he was up for working together,” Stables explains. “And he was! As if that wasn’t enough, he was also up for doing a bit of singing on the record, which totally blew my mind and made my year. His way with harmony and melody and the tone and quality of his voice is a totally killer combo.”

“They are so ridiculously talented–and every member is a great producer in their own right–so it was just a matter of trying to capture the magic they make when playing live together,” Rhys says of the recording process. “Their playing is by default so thoughtful and complimentary in terms of respect to each other’s parts and to the integrity of the songs themselves that it creates a beautiful foundation of often cosmic interplay that’s always in aid of Kate’s voice and vision as a songwriter.”

 

Cassette – This will have acoustic field recordings of the entire album on the b-side of the cassette, and features alternate hand-drawn artwork.

 

Track Listing

LP/CD

  1. Goodbye Bite
  2. Inside Outside
  3. Take You To Sleep
  4. More Change
  5. This is When The Sky Gets Big
  6. Scabby Head and Legs
  7. Careful of Your Keepers
  8. Doomed Or More Doomed
  9. Stuck in a Room
  10. Dibs

Cassette

Side A

  1. Goodbye Bite
  2. Inside Outside
  3. Take You To Sleep
  4. More Change
  5. This Is When the Sky Gets Big
  6. Scabby Head and Legs
  7. Careful Of Your Keepers
  8. Doomed Or More Doomed
  9. Stuck In A Room
  10. Dibs

Side B

  1. Goodbye Bite (acoustic)
  2. Inside Outside (acoustic)
  3. Take You To Sleep (acoustic)
  4. More Change (acoustic)
  5. This Is When the Sky Gets Big (acoustic)
  6. Scabby Head and Legs (acoustic)
  7. Careful Of Your Keepers (acoustic)
  8. Doomed Or More Doomed (acoustic)
  9. Stuck In A Room (acoustic)
  10. Dibs (acoustic)
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