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KAKI KING - Until We Felt Red
| Lost At Sea magazine |
| Kaki King is the Presley of the acoustic guitar. She may not be a hip-shaking wonder, nor does she offer lip-swaggering vocal delivery, but she has an undisputed experimental edge and her act is to be reckoned with. When National Public Radio interviewed her regarding 2004's Legs To Make Us Longer, they called King the queen of the acoustic guitar; but we're going to call her the king because queens tend to come second, standing behind the man. And Kaki King's stance is far from deferrential....full text |
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| AV Club |
| Like John Fahey or Leo Kottke, Kaki King is a virtuoso guitarist by trade, which means she generally puts out albums that showcase her skill. To a certain extent, King's third album, …Until We Felt Red, is no exception. It's just that King's particular gifts are more suited to textured indie-rock songs than New Age, and the songs on the new record—produced by alt-rock legend John McEntire—could pass for some of the softer passages of Lush or My Bloody Valentine, or any other of those early-'90s dream-pop bands that prized environment over melody....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| I don’t know if Kaki King timed the release of ...Until We Felt Red just so, but the guitar virtuoso’s third release sounds perfect to my ears as I sit here and type at the onset of August, my fingers working not nearly hard enough to justify the amount of sweat on my brow. ...full text |
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