This Is The Kit today shared their latest single ‘More Change’ from the band’s new album Careful Of Your Keepers – produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) – due out on June 9th via Rough Trade Records.
Featuring Rhys on backing vocals, the meditative track is out now alongside an adorable animated video created by Benjamin Jones that brings everyday objects to life as it follows along to the song’s heartfelt lyrics. Jones explains the video saying “With this video I wanted to create something that felt homemade, organic and very much alive. Using very simple puppetry with some old coat hangers and some basic stop motion (and some surprisingly willing neighbours who lent me their faces) I’ve tried to create a few characters and scenarios which are connected in some ways, but also reflect the themes I picked up from the music – sadness, compromise, exploring new ground, and finding new ways to help each other move forward.”
Paris-based songwriter Kate Stables explains ‘More Change saying “The more things change the more they actually stay the same. The one constant is change. Change is the only thing we can be sure of. Who is who. The people that become important to us and the way they become important. Phases that come and go? Or don’t go? The friends we need. We need our friends. We need to remember to be in the world.”
‘More Change’ follows lead single ‘Inside Outside,’ which earned praise and support via The New York Times (Playlist), MTV, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Under the Radar, and others.
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. Across ten songs, Stables reflects on the fragility of everything – of situations, relationships, and humans – and what we do to look after each other and ourselves as time rapidly passes.
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. “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.”
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This Is The Kit – ‘More Change’ (Official VIdeo)
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