K Anderson - Foxes EP
by Anthony Middleton
published: 9 / 10 / 2008
Label:
Anderson Records
Format: CDS
intro
Promising debut EP from genre hopping Australian-raised, but now London-based singer-songwriter K Anderson
From the opening, stumbling syncopated beats of 'High Horse', this short offering from singer songwriter K Anderson is an arresting change from the usual troop of troubadours armed with an acoustic guitar and lot of problems to air. Sporting a gravely, hoarse voice, Australian-raised, London-based Anderson seems happy to genre hop, with 'I’m Done, I’m Done, I’m Done' and 'High Horse' both employing sparse keyboards loops and drones. The former, a wounded song about being trapped and feeling so homesick-he actually misses Hackney-is nearly funky in its beat. 'High Horse' is a deceptively simple, though methodically well structured affair, where Anderson claims he “wouldn’t write a song about you”. While on the face of it the best crafted song, 'Same Kind of Grim', is on more straightforward singer songwriter acoustic territory. Perhaps catchier than the other songs on the EP, it is also the most unadventurous. 'Foxes' on the other hand, is a slow bluesy contemplation of the similarities of anonymous human life in the city with that of an urban fox. “Part of the gift of growing older is that you don’t believe in anything anymore,” gives an idea of the tone going on here. While acoustic guitar driven, a few electronic effects are used to give a sure sense of atmosphere and this is the most effective number. The final song, 'Teethmarks', is nearly a cappella, though with something sounding like bottles being struck as accompaniment. In truth, it ends up sounding more like a demo than an innovation.
Track Listing:-
1 High Horse2 Same Kind Of Grim
3 I'm Done, I'm Done, I'm Done
4 Foxes
5 Teethmarks
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