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Free Kisses is Karen from Toronto [+ band]. On first listen she's that girl at school who everyone makes fun of a bit [because she's shy, likes books and that's how these things go] who one day she enters the singing contest and IS AWESOME. Next thing you know she's in NYC playing shows for "hipster kids" and people in the UK are saying how "gorgeous" her music is just because it's autumn and they get to wear mittens again. Somewhere along the line the school hottie wants to go out with her and those "plastics" flick their hair, pout and flounce off to the library. All the dudes rejoice because they didn't even like "those sort of girls" anyway, they were just pretending because that's how they thought things rolled.
On second listen that's doing her a disservice. Free Kisses isn't a saccharine tween hit. Her music is more like Grouper and the poised sound of Inca Ore. They're Unrest, not The Moldy Peaches. Detached vocals are lifted above icy plucking and her fed-back sounds melt into one another. She's plays with echoes and stylistic subtleties. Instead of strumming along like some mysterious loner she got a band and played tours with guy [Read more]
On second listen that's doing her a disservice. Free Kisses isn't a saccharine tween hit. Her music is more like Grouper and the poised sound of Inca Ore. They're Unrest, not The Moldy Peaches. Detached vocals are lifted above icy plucking and her fed-back sounds melt into one another. She's plays with echoes and stylistic subtleties. Instead of strumming along like some mysterious loner she got a band and played tours with guy [Read more]
Free Kisses is Karen from Toronto [+ band]. On first listen she's that girl at school who everyone makes fun of a bit [because she's shy, likes books and that's how these things go] who one day she enters the singing contest and IS AWESOME. Next thing you know she's in NYC playing shows for "hipster kids" and people in the UK are saying how "gorgeous" her music is just because it's autumn and they get to wear mittens again. Somewhere along the line the school hottie wants to go out with her and those "plastics" flick their hair, pout and flounce off to the library. All the dudes rejoice because they didn't even like "those sort of girls" anyway, they were just pretending because that's how they thought things rolled.
On second listen that's doing her a disservice. Free Kisses isn't a saccharine tween hit. Her music is more like Grouper and the poised sound of Inca Ore. They're Unrest, not The Moldy Peaches. Detached vocals are lifted above icy plucking and her fed-back sounds melt into one another. She's plays with echoes and stylistic subtleties. Instead of strumming along like some mysterious loner she got a band and played tours with guys like San Francisco's Brave Horatius. He's got a song about erm, Mittens but they sound pretty cool.
No superficial cheery endings here. It's heartbreak. It's joy. Minimal style.
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On second listen that's doing her a disservice. Free Kisses isn't a saccharine tween hit. Her music is more like Grouper and the poised sound of Inca Ore. They're Unrest, not The Moldy Peaches. Detached vocals are lifted above icy plucking and her fed-back sounds melt into one another. She's plays with echoes and stylistic subtleties. Instead of strumming along like some mysterious loner she got a band and played tours with guys like San Francisco's Brave Horatius. He's got a song about erm, Mittens but they sound pretty cool.
No superficial cheery endings here. It's heartbreak. It's joy. Minimal style.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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