"The Feast" - The second single to be taken from the 2013 double vinyl release "Cover&Flood;" - www.katiekim.bandcamp.com https://flamingjunerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cover-and-flood "Katie Kim's second album Cover and Flood is a dark, haunting piece from the fiercely talented Irish songstress. It's musically situated somewhere between P.J. Harvey's Let England Shake and Portishead's Third. Let's just put this out there, there has yet to be an album this year which in my humble opinion surpasses this work. Katie Kim has created something incredibly rare. It is an album which has authenticity, impact and unquestionable prowess. It really is a privilege to get to listen to this standard of music." - COCK&BULLTV; - 2012 "There are twenty songs on Cover & Flood, twenty pieces of sound patched together to form an overwhelmingly beautiful whole. It's a myriad of tones and shadows, an experience that rewards close listening as much as it is great to fall asleep to. It's as deep as you want or need it to be. New elements peek their way out of the dusk with each new listen and old, forgotten ones eventually return with all the joy that accompanies a meeting with an old friend. It's an album made for the four sides of vinyl it will appear on, with each flipping of side or changing of disc further building the ritual around listening to it. Noisy, small and half-hidden, it makes no grand gestures or sweeping statements. It is an album confident in itself, as it should be. It will seek no gratification, though it deserves to find it. When Katie Kim's first record, Twelves, came out, it felt like a one-of-a-kind experience, a moment in time. Cover & Flood is all that her début was and much, much more. It's stronger and more assured, with every minute detail bearing signs of the loving touch of its creator. A singular achievement and an important record." -IAN MALENEY - THUMPED - 2012 "Let us get to the heart of the matter straight away: Katie Kim's Cover And Flood is very, very good. Appealingly minimal half-whispered melodies blend with primitive guitar arpeggios, or pianos and cellos, or organs and harmoniums, or drum-machine beatz, or electronic fuzz, and over it all varying degrees of echo, reverb, distortion and background noise wash like a comforting lo-fi sea." - HOT PRESS 2012 "Cover And Flood conjures an atmosphere that's instantly familiar, in much the same way as other innovators The xx and James Blake. Staying in character for the duration, she immerses the listener in her world for 50 minutes, transporting them from the mundaneness of an overcrowded 8.45am train to the dark of a high-ceilinged townhouse in the throes of night, with just a few well places strings and ethereal vocals. Or in the case of the haunting Habits, a plinky-plonky piano that someone's dead grandmother probably played. It shows the talent is there, but the Waterford lady's passion is in idea-forming, not in tidying up for any record companies that might be passing through her basement recordings. It indicates that not one sound is there by accident, it's been pored over. It proves she's an artist of the purest kind, a visionary." - HEINEKEN MUSIC REVIEW - 2011 "Katie Kim is unique in her art form. Her style is sweetly dissonant and hypnotic, created with the use of looped harmonies and effects pedals. She drowns her audience in velvety vocals and haunting melodies that pirouette around thundering guitar arpeggios, tied together with a dreamy gossamer ambience akin to that of Mazzy Star or Beach House." - FLIPITTV.COM - 2012 "Waterford songstress Katie Kim offers a glance at her forthcoming sophomore release, Cover and Flood. "Heavy Lighting" is a slowcore waltz at the bottom of the ocean, steeped in gloomy ambience. Like the echo chamber divinity of a Zola Jesus ballad or CocoRosie's dank naïveté, Irish native Kim writes a soft dirge. Heavy with bare gossamer isolation, the track eventually rises to the elegant, murky cloud of its conclusion, a total-bummer canticle reminiscent of Long Division-era Low or DM Stith's "Braid of Voices." - GARBAGE DAYS - 2011 " Out of the boat on that day we went walking , we looked at the stars and we saw what the others could see. A hung light on the reeds. We crept up the old walls on our knees where they buried them, captured the comets, flagged down the next ride we could see. Come on get in with me. See how the world can throw you, Im not the ghost to haunt you. Little girls help to pave in the way, your missing the feast we made under the clay. Crack it open a little more hold the light to the window. Eucrid is singing and Im still a fool for the words that your bringing, a piper is playing and I am dancing over his body in blue. See how your bones can break you, my little angel creeping around to teach you, not everything that your mother would say, will bring you to the lord lest you lay down and pray."

• published: 25 Oct 2013
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