Name: Perfect Shapes
Brand: Madeline Kenney

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-CAK-129

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Coke Bottle Green Colored LP. Includes Download Code and 12x12” Lyric Sheet / Liner Note Insert.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

677517012910

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Artist

Madeline Kenney  

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Carpark

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Madeline Kenney's album Perfect Shapes. Available here on Coke Bottle Green Colored LP and Standard CD.

In January of 2018, five months after the release of her debut album Night Night at the First Landing, Madeline Kenney traveled from Oakland, California to the woods outside of Durham, North Carolina to record her sophomore album with a new collaborator, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner. The choice was a conscious decision to explore new methodology in writing, recording, production and even genre. Perfect Shapes sees Kenney leaping headfirst into fresh and adventurous territory, largely eschewing conventional rock structures in favour of theme and melody. Its ten songs are full of surprises big and small - from vibrant synth lines to taut bass figures and subtly modulated vocals - that instead of feeling fussed over, reveal Kenney’s penchant for elegant and abstract composition. Kenney’s 2017 debut, Night Night at the First Landing, was a guitar-centric rock album, produced by friend and collaborator Chaz Bear of Toro Y Moi, Perfect Shapes leans on the foundational pieces of Night Night - fuzzed-out guitar tones, coy wordplay and Kenney’s notably strong voice - but with an unconventional approach that allows them to bloom, reincarnated. Perfect Shapes marks Wasner’s first foray into producing another artist’s work and is permeated by the pair’s collaborative spirit. Both Wasner and Kenney play multiple instruments on the record, and engineered the session alongside Kenney’s touring percussionist, Camille Lewis. An eagerness to explore and experiment is apparent from start to finish, as Kenney and Wasner weave endless sonic curve balls into the arrangements. From the delightfully warped percussion on opening track Overhead to the burbling synths on the R&amp;B-tinted The Flavor of the Fruit Tree and the left-field trumpet solo in Your Art, these rich and inventive ideas echo Yo La Tengo’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mentality, as well as the surging soundscapes of Tame Impala and Wye Oak at their most impressionistic. Lead single Cut Me Off is a surprise of its own - the most pop-forward song Kenney has written yet. Bad Idea, finds her balancing fragility as foil; later, I Went Home manages to evoke both frustration and affection in a single breath.

LP+ - Coke Bottle Green Colored LP. Includes Download Code and 12x12” Lyric Sheet / Liner Note Insert.

Perfect Shapes

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