Name: Careful Of Your Keepers
Brand: This Is The Kit

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RT0414LPE

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Green

Colour details

Dark Green

Discogs ID

[r27321834]

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

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191402041408

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Green LP

RT0414LP

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191402041415

Black LP

RT0414CD

2023-06-15

191402041422

RT0414MC

Acoustic Field Recordings of the Entire Album on the b-Side of the Cassette, and Features Alternate Hand-Drawn Artwork

Tape

191402041446

Artist

This Is The Kit

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Rough Trade

This Is The Kit is a British folk-rock duo that was founded in 2003 by Kate Stables. The band consists of Kate Stables on vocals, guitar, and banjo; Jesse Vernon on violin, guitar, bass, and percussion; Neil Smith on guitar; Rozi Leyden on bass and vocals; and Jamie Whitby-Coles on drums and vocals.

With their unique blend of folk and rock influences, This Is The Kit has captivated audiences with their heartfelt lyrics and soulful melodies. Led by the talented Kate Stables, the band's music is both introspective and uplifting, exploring themes of love, loss, and self-discovery.

Known for their mesmerizing live performances, This Is The Kit has gained a loyal following around the world. Their distinctive sound combines intricate instrumentation with Stables' hauntingly beautiful voice to create an immersive musical experience.

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This Is The Kit, the group led by Paris-based bandleader Kate Stables, today announced the band’s new album Careful of Your Keepers&nbsp;–produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)–will be released on June 9th, 2023, via Rough Trade Records. The album’s propulsive yet introspective lead single “Inside Outside” finds Stables as magnetic as ever, joined once again by her stalwart band of Rozi Plain(bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), and accented by a cascading horn quartet arrangement by Jesse Vernon.

Careful Of Your Keepers is daring and soft, cutting and warm–a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. There’s a shared language of the band’s family experience that is as audible as ever in these recordings, which boast beautiful instrumental performances that still leave the nuanced space required for Stables’ vocals to live at the forefront. “The album was nearly called Goodbye Bite. And in a way it still is,” says Stables. “I went for Careful of Your Keepers in the end. It’s one of my favourite songs on the album, a song that for me holds the general feeling of the album as a whole. The fragility of things. Of situations. Of relationships. Of humans. What we do to look after each other and ourselves. The passing of time and what that does to us, and how we live our lives going forward.”

Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Rhys. Stables described his role as being a “tonesetter,” watchful and attentive to the band dynamics while making sure to always follow a hunch for where a new sound could find its place in the recording. “I’ve always loved the idea of working with him somehow, and when this album started getting planned, I realized that maybe this was my chance to reach out and see if he was up for working together,” Stables explains. “And he was! As if that wasn’t enough, he was also up for doing a bit of singing on the record, which totally blew my mind and made my year. His way with harmony and melody and the tone and quality of his voice is a totally killer combo.”

“They are so ridiculously talented–and every member is a great producer in their own right–so it was just a matter of trying to capture the magic they make when playing live together,” Rhys says of the recording process. “Their playing is by default so thoughtful and complimentary in terms of respect to each other’s parts and to the integrity of the songs themselves that it creates a beautiful foundation of often cosmic interplay that’s always in aid of Kate’s voice and vision as a songwriter.”

Careful Of Your Keepers

Music GB

Discover Careful Of Your Keepers by This Is The Kit on vinyl, CD, and tape. A daring and soft album produced by Gruff Rhys, released via Rough Trade Records.