Karaocake – Rows & Stitches CD

Karaocake – Rows & Stitches CD

Karaocake's debut album on Clapping Music was recorded with Stéphane Laporte, aka Domotic (also responsible for the latest Konki Duet's ep or the ambitious Characters by The Patriotic Sunday), a friend she had longed to work with for years, with additional help from Tom Gagnaire (Charlotte Sampling, who also plays live with them). Rows and Stitches ideally extends Karaocake's universe from Camille s bedroom to the stars up and to the History of Rock Music and opens the door onto her secret world as well as on the big world out there, the one filled with nature and crickets from Chambon-sur-Lignon. With it, Karaocake defines their own aesthetic contract, with a humble yet upfront approach on the one hand and a passion for sound and a real pop ambition on the other hand, as well as inventing a world their own stories can unfold. Like « Eeeeerie » the comet echoing Phil Spector s productions or the hit-singles « Medication » and « It Doesn't Take a Whole Week » (the first single to be released as a 7 inch), Rows and Stitches isn't a simple take off, it is a real transfiguration. The beats from the Casio keyboard are the same as the ones on the first demos, Camille s voice is still fragile and the major Cs are still major Cs. But everything else is bigger than life : polished with electricity emerging from the spring reverb and an old German console, illuminated with radiant guitar and analog keyboard themes, clouds of saturation and twists of dusty organs, Rows and Stitches hits right into your heart and stands imposingly next to some classic 60s records or Broadcast s vintage and extraordinary albums. And if you can forget for a moment everything you've ever read about content and form, this is no coquetry : surely, it is through this cloud of luminous dust that Karaocake's music opens up, in its barest and most beautiful self.