Toronto’s AloneKitty shares genre-hopping collection Sad Not Sad, an expansive yet painfully intimate album that comes to life with one intricate layer after another.
Melodic and emotive, the instrumentals built on tense yet surging guitars expand seamlessly to unfurl a narrative of upheaval, fluidity, and reinvention. Produced with Josh Korody (Beliefs), mixed by Luke Schindler (Alexisonfire, Broken Social Scene) and mastered by Slowdive’s Simon Scott, the project is primal and luscious all at once.
From the jangling styling of “She Let You Down Again,” to the comforting touches of “2Tired2,” the album offers up a little bit of everything spanning shoe gaze to dream pop and post-rock, the hook-laden notes drawing us in at every turn.
Atmospheric at points but shifting to new depths at others, the tension and release of the album reflects the period of personal upheaval that was transformed into a escapist sonic haven, laden with quiet comfort and deep honesty in equal parts. Speaking of the project, AloneKitty says, “Twelve songs in two days. Live. Two or maybe three takes of the beds for some of the songs at most.”
Encapsulating various stories amidst a sprawl of genres, AloneKitty delivers an intricate sonic world that has reaching for its confines over and over again.
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