Loading ...Kin – Dot Dot Dot EP
Kin labels herself as “an Art Rock Lady”. All well and good, but you say ‘art rock lady’, and you think Karen O. And that is what you get. With fewer wardrobe and stylistic changes.
Despite having a reasonably accomplished band behind her (a bassist for PJ Harvey, for example), she sounds more than just a little hollow. Someone must have noticed this, and given someone a feedback/drum pedal, and an electric glockenspiel (for credibility’s sake? Hope so.), both of which dominate the otherwise pretty ‘How To Speak’. Track four, ‘Chemistry Set’, is marginally denser, but definitely too late in the game to re-brand as a trip-hop junkie, however much crooning/crying (you can’t tell) you can cram in.
If you liked Giant Drag, you might like this. Might. More to the point; however ‘quirky’ (not very) this EP claims to be, there are certainly more than enough female singer-songwriters, however arty and Mancunian Kin may be.
