★★★★★
Velour Solo acoustic guitarists don't often make music easily classified as "sweeping" or "epic," but Kaki King has never been just a guitarist. On her sixth album Glow, the virtuoso excels at pairing the perfect pieces--tapped percussion, shakers--to finish her puzzle. While her immaculately picked guitar remains the centerpiece, she's creating immersive, organic and even cinematic compositions instead of soloing endlessly...
- www.relix.com
2012-11-15
★★★★★
The guitar, by design, does not cater to melody easily. Oh yes, plenty of people have made melodic statements on the guitar, you don't have to look too hard for evidence of that. But rolling a languid line off of a fretboard is not the same as peeling it off of a flute or a keyboard. With that, many an instrumental icon have taken the guitar's limitations and used them for what they're worth. John Fahey, for all his melodic gifts, specialized in the broken chord to underline his melodies...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-25
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Road Less Traveled Kaki King is a musician unlike any other out there. Unconventional and captivating, King's sixth studio album release has solidified her as a true virtuoso of the guitar. Glow pairs the guitar guru up with producer James Goodwin and backing string quartet ETHEL to create a mystical twelve track album that hauntingly stays with you long after the album is over...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-10-22
★★★★★
Music is not a competition. Nonetheless, "points" must go to Kaki King for spinning this fully instrumental album into its own gorgeous realm of existence. The acoustic fingerwork is simply masterful, spellbinding; the string arrangements are exquisite and filling, soul-wise. This record generally begs your wine-soaked attention on any winsome November night of your choosing. The aptly titled Glow is not the best album of the year, but it is nonetheless incredible. Listen for beauty's sake.
- filtermagazine.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
A new decade is upon us, and there is no better way to get it started than with a musical gem such as this. Kaki King is back with her fifth studio recording, 'Junior,' and it's everything you want from an album: catchy melodies, fantastic vocals and of course, King's incredible musicianship...
- www.alterthepress.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Given her smoky, Suzanne Vega-esque vocals leading into the Belly-like burst that kicks off Kaki King's fifth LP, Junior, the six-string acrobat has traversed many a musical lifetime since debuting as a young twentysomething virtuoso crafting instrumental discs. Same goes for "Spit It Back in My Mouth," featuring the still-young Atlantan's candy-coated, multitracked singing as tied altogether by production medium Malcolm Burn...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2010-11-08
★★★★★
Even if the name Kaki King does not ring a bell, there is a good chance you have already heard her voice. Her delicate, and rather fantastic, version of the Cure's "Close To Me" is used in the Nivea moisturiser adverts currently on heavy rotation on television...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
What's always made Kaki King's records interesting, particularly on ...Until We Felt Red and Dreaming of Revenge, was how she managed to shape her unruly guitar playing into clear songs. Despite its amazing precision, her virtuoso playing feels like it fits only its own structures, like percussion and voice and other instrumentation couldn't possibly keep up. On those albums, King's approach was simply to outnumber the guitar...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
This is the fourth album from Kaki King (who does have a name that for reason reminds me of the most hideous scat porn movie I've ever accidentally seen), and it could well be the one that gains her a wider recognition. She's been busy of late, contributing guitars to the latest Foo Fighters album, receiving a golden globe nomination for her work on the Into The Wild soundtrack, appearing as a hand double in a movie, and seemingly just appearing everywhere...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
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