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Artist
Kaki King
Title
Pull Me Out Alive
Format/Cat
FRY361-CDR
Label
Cooking Vinyl
Style
showgazing/indie
Date of review
27 June 2008
Reviewer
Stuart Moses
Rating
6.5/10
 
Some music grabs the listener unaware, forces them to reassess every single choice they've ever made leading to them leaving a relationship, quitting a job or going backpacking around Europe. It's safe to say that the laid-back jazzy vibes of Kaki King are unlikely to have that effect, but you never know.

There's a gentle woozy feel to "Pull Me Out Alive", with a Throwing Muses/Belly vibe. Kaki sounds like she is singing to us from the bottom of the cavern during the chorus, but it's not an unpleasant experience. The guitars have a slight Shoegazing feel. "Saving Days In A Frozen Head" has Kaki using a little-girl-lost vocal style that will delight some and be dismissed by others as twee. "Bone Chaos In The Castle" never lives up to the potential of its title. It has the feel of a less fragmented Future Sound of London. Floaty New Age keyboards drift across a gently insistent guitar and bass. It could so easily drift into tedious jazz noodling, but the brevity never gives the song the chance to bore the listener. I wouldn't have minded an Ozric Tentacles style odyssey, but maybe that's just me.

Sometimes all you want is something to soothe a troubled soul; it's the difference between having a drink of wine and downing a bottle of Tequila. Just as the more you drink the more effect it has; the same is true of Kaki King's music.