Man the number of people disrespecting Kate Stables in the comments. If you're looking for voice range, go listen to Celine Dion. She's writing her songs, and she's got an incredible voice because it feels real and full of emotion. You just need that, nobody cares about how many notes you play on guitar or how wide is your voice's range if the feeling isn't there. This is the kit is freakin great and sounds different because of her and the band.
This is the kit are class. It’s British folk at heart. It’s not meant to be polished. It’s folk. It’s British. It’s ours, but to be enjoyed - please embrace and positive vibes only!
Not only is their music fabulous, but they are genuinely wonderful people too. I used to play at the Railway open mic night in Winchester back in the day and I was always in awe of them then. I'm so glad they're doing so well, because they worked hard and have so much talent. I love and miss Roz & Kate and Roz's bro Sam very muchly :)
Kate Stables just comes across as a bloody nice person as well as being an amazing talent. And she clearly enjoyed doing this. How good can a thing get?
This is absolutely fucking phenomenal. She doesn't need a huge vocal range because she has such wonderful control. Beautiful timbre from the fantastic choice of instrumentation
What a magnificent band. I have recently discovered them on Spotify and seeing how good they translate their music in the live setting makes me discover more of their music and fully immerse into exploring their sound. Greetings from Bosnia. ❤
This is one of my most most favourite bands. I've seen them at least 4 times... the first time was in a church in north london, maybe hamstead some years back. Kate's magical voice captured every crevice, and church acoustics are so sweet. Thanks for this lovely recording. Tiny Desk 4eva
Thank u NPR, just discovered this band, then found they did an NPR tiny Desk!!. This is a good day to be in Quarantine. Hope all of u and yours are safe 'n well.
Love this band so very much. Live they are wondrous. They create an almost magical atmosphere. Go and see them if you can and if you can't, buy all their records and see if you can stop playing them! Much love to this wonderful band.
Bout time they got to play there, thanks NPR! Great band, saw them last month in Luxembourg. Her album Wriggle out the Restless is really good, with "Earthquake" being my favorite song.
I love this band, I love the simplicity and innocence in their sound. I love that Kate is so natural in the way she presents herself. So inspiring. Love. ♥️
I saw these guys in Oxford in 2019, I was stood behind a really tall bloke wearing a hat; he was having the time of his life and everytime I moved, he moved infront of me! They are a great live band and if you get the chance to see them I'd strongly advise you do. I have tickets to see them in Winchester in Novermber. Giddy as a schoolgirl!
Fun fact! This is actually the 3rd time Adam Schatz (the saxophonist) has been on a Tiny Desk! He was on Father Figures back in 2013 and was actually on earlier in 2017 with Landlady!
I miss when tiny desk was actually for “tiny” or smaller artists now they just have pop stars it seems like, I miss the vibe of these videos and these incredibly personal songs ❤
I'm not reading 200 comments but if you can't hear the complexity of what she is doing with her voice, record yourself and compare and listen how far off you are. The irony is that the entire song of Moonshine Freeze is talking about what she and the band are doing. If you don't like her stylistically, that is agreeabley, is one thing but if you can't hear the complexity of the music, and the vocals, you can't possibly have a creative background, where' you've attempted to bring spirit into the physical realm.
I'm really into voices and i know what i like immediately---just heard her for first time on "Wanderlust" on Netflix. she does remind me of different things i've known; kind of a combination of early 70's folk and some stripped down British post-punk i useta listen to. first scritti politti album?
Alice Smith is plainly magnificent. As mentioned in a previous, strangely disappeared comment, although she does miss and flatten a note or two here, her opening phrasings, and various others throughout, are a descant to her underlying and implicit melody. In her own incomparably expressive style, but in common with the respectively unique styles of the singing and playing of other original artists like Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Richard Thompson, Archie Shepp and more, Alice alternates conventional melody with both descant and discord to evoke and provoke the emotional and conceptual sense of what she sings and writes about. She doesn't appeal to convention and she doesn't pander to it either. She doesn't do nursery rhymes, and brother, she won't sell out regardless of what anyone will or won't buy. The sense in her descants of being flat, out of tune or discordant is intentional; she often sings about the disjunction (discord) between hopes and wishes versus lumpen mundane perversity - or life and love gone wrong. Her discord at 0:38 is intentional for this reason and she intentionally does it every time she sings that song. Jingle bells, she doesn't do. Whenever she does miss or inadvertently flatten a note, she no doubt rues it and curses herself, but the purity and veracity of her expression, her soul, just turns the mistake into yet another evocative expression of the emotional freight she's carrying and delivering. The integrity of her intention and feeling turns any errors into further permutations of the eloquence that repeatedly just roils up out of the honesty of her gut. Sometimes she's a conflagration, sometimes she's all broken down, like us. Everybody who knows and cares enough about honest music is going to be talking about her for a hundred years from now; everybody's going to be talking about how she burned the whole place down. ua-cam.com/video/aHp8ZQJx2FE/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/xlFGCna3-Jc/v-deo.html But there's not much point in any of this for anyone who doesn't know, norr want to know, much about these aspects of music in general and singing in particular, and who doesn't really care if they know what they're talking about or not. But it's all right, if one doesn't know or really care, there's no need to say anything. Other than that, she was plainly a bit nervous, which is a little unexpected, but probably because there seems to be no sense in which she's any kind of one trick pony. She's one of the most uninhibited and unaffected performers anyone will ever see, but that's not her only trick . . . she knows what it's like on the other side too.
Man the number of people disrespecting Kate Stables in the comments. If you're looking for voice range, go listen to Celine Dion. She's writing her songs, and she's got an incredible voice because it feels real and full of emotion. You just need that, nobody cares about how many notes you play on guitar or how wide is your voice's range if the feeling isn't there.
This is the kit is freakin great and sounds different because of her and the band.
Great comment
Couldn’t agree more
Yes! Her intriguing story telling with beautiful rolling melodies, it’s so special. They will always be in my favourite bands exactly for this.
Just discovered her...fantastic! could agree more with u
i have not seen a single negative comment and yes she is absolutely fantastic!
This is the kit are class. It’s British folk at heart. It’s not meant to be polished. It’s folk. It’s British. It’s ours, but to be enjoyed - please embrace and positive vibes only!
Not only is their music fabulous, but they are genuinely wonderful people too. I used to play at the Railway open mic night in Winchester back in the day and I was always in awe of them then.
I'm so glad they're doing so well, because they worked hard and have so much talent. I love and miss Roz & Kate and Roz's bro Sam very muchly :)
Her vocals are so clean damn
finally someone recognizes this beautiful band
Kate Stables just comes across as a bloody nice person as well as being an amazing talent. And she clearly enjoyed doing this. How good can a thing get?
The guitarist is very, very, very good. It's a measure of how good everyone else is that you can nearly not notice him.
Great lesson from the 80's post-punk guitarists school
Neil
Smithy❤
Love an artist that appreciates the value of space and subtlety.
This is absolutely fucking phenomenal. She doesn't need a huge vocal range because she has such wonderful control. Beautiful timbre from the fantastic choice of instrumentation
word!
you mean she has extremely limited talent
JMarz Hahahaha!!
Thought we got past that ignorant outlook that limited range = limited talent?
Billie Holiday had a limited range..
every band needs guitarist like this guy > great taste and knowing what song needs, nothing more or less...perfect work.
Check out his band, The Brackish. Immense.
What a magnificent band. I have recently discovered them on Spotify and seeing how good they translate their music in the live setting makes me discover more of their music and fully immerse into exploring their sound. Greetings from Bosnia. ❤
favorite band. It's like a shot of fresh and delicious air you breathe once in a while . beautiful
This is one of my most most favourite bands. I've seen them at least 4 times... the first time was in a church in north london, maybe hamstead some years back. Kate's magical voice captured every crevice, and church acoustics are so sweet. Thanks for this lovely recording. Tiny Desk 4eva
You made me cry, and I don't know why. Maybe the simple beauty.
Me tooo❤
Me too❤
Same pinch. We can feel it but we can't explain it.
My favorite song by this band is "Bashed out" it's mellow sound set the tone for all of 2019 to me.
Yes same! It’s my alarm clock song forever
Thank u NPR, just discovered this band, then found they did an NPR tiny Desk!!. This is a good day to be in Quarantine. Hope all of u and yours are safe 'n well.
They really are such a fine fine band. Love the sound and the complexity...it's so simple and perfect...brilliant..
Just saw them this week in Newcastle... mesmerising!!!!
Love this band so very much. Live they are wondrous. They create an almost magical atmosphere. Go and see them if you can and if you can't, buy all their records and see if you can stop playing them! Much love to this wonderful band.
I love Kate Stables so much
Bullet proof is magical song, sung with beautiful voice..
Can't emphasise enough how much I love this band. What a breath of fresh air
I love this woman!....Please,please more people doing something...different.
i know what you mean...
See them live if you have the chance, absolutely worth it! Although this version of Moonshine Freeze is even better.
Bout time they got to play there, thanks NPR! Great band, saw them last month in Luxembourg. Her album Wriggle out the Restless is really good, with "Earthquake" being my favorite song.
Wonderful! She's so talented and a fantastic performer.
Epic musicianship from all. This is wonderful jazz/folk beauty.
I adore This is the Kit!
me too! they are just wonderful!
The harmony at 9:20 is 👌😩😫
her voice is so smooth
love kit- great sound -very moving real music and fantastic talent
the sound quality of this is as amazing as the performance itself - joyous stuff - thanks NPR .
One of my fav bands of the 2010s! Awaiting the new record!
I love this band, I love the simplicity and innocence in their sound. I love that Kate is so natural in the way she presents herself. So inspiring. Love. ♥️
I saw these guys in Oxford in 2019, I was stood behind a really tall bloke wearing a hat; he was having the time of his life and everytime I moved, he moved infront of me! They are a great live band and if you get the chance to see them I'd strongly advise you do. I have tickets to see them in Winchester in Novermber. Giddy as a schoolgirl!
Stand in front of him next time. Just an idea.
Saw them last night and defo second that
Saw them open for the national and made such an impression... really loving them lately
If Katherine Stables wasn't a musician she'd 100% be a kindergarten teacher.
Miss Lippy from Billy Madison?
FACTS
What a treat to find this, thank you for having them on the show - I love these songs and the album is one of my favorites.
Never heard Kate S before, but will be following! What superb recording quality though, NPR you are magic!
2 vinyls on my shelf, bought on a tiny concert in a tiny town in rural Germany (Schwäbisch Hall). fallen in love on the spot.
Fun fact! This is actually the 3rd time Adam Schatz (the saxophonist) has been on a Tiny Desk! He was on Father Figures back in 2013 and was actually on earlier in 2017 with Landlady!
One of my favourite bands.
I liked how you let the old guy in the band . That was nice:) .
What a band, this was truly beautiful 💜
So glad to see you guys still going strong! Great performance.
I think this is my favourite version of all of these songs
Quel voix magnifique ... Which magnificent voice
Clean, simple, unpretentious, melodic, atmospheric... Tasty.
Cool songs!... Excellent musical group!... Nice performance!...
1st song is so pretty ...so real ... takes me back to my childhood...love it....amazing
I too adore this is the kit, have discovered them today!!!😁
I miss when tiny desk was actually for “tiny” or smaller artists now they just have pop stars it seems like, I miss the vibe of these videos and these incredibly personal songs ❤
Amazing..........captivating......thank you!.
The only person with no hair is the only one without a beanie
Its symbolism
very nice taste on arrangements this people have! amazing!
I think I saw some tears around 3:05. Great song
Love this group!!!....
I never knew of this band until about 30 seconds ago, and the first musician other than myself to have the name Stables. Good stuff.
Love her!
Hey! All my friends love tiny desk. hi friends! I miss you!!
I'm not reading 200 comments but if you can't hear the complexity of what she is doing with her voice, record yourself and compare and listen how far off you are. The irony is that the entire song of Moonshine Freeze is talking about what she and the band are doing. If you don't like her stylistically, that is agreeabley, is one thing but if you can't hear the complexity of the music, and the vocals, you can't possibly have a creative background, where' you've attempted to bring spirit into the physical realm.
I always come back here
tonight again
Wow this is all fantastic.
Love it! Another Band discovered thanks to NPR!
one of the few channels that never disapponts
this actually sounds like good music
Just gorgeous ❤
I’d love to see Sufjan himself brought to a Tiny Desk Concert!
Oh please please, Sufjan
Kate is so beautiful.
Tremendous!
FINALLY!! Bullet proof in a place I can hear nicely until I get the record.
Adam, loving the beard! 😉
Heavenly. Truely.
Hon the fuckin kit!!! Much deserved tiny desk!! Have seen them numerous times
Top playing our Neil
Loving this set!!! 😊💗👏
All these amazing artists. WE NEED FRANK OCEAN!!
Quality, I like it.
loved 'hotter, colder'
I'm a simple man. I see bari sax I click
2017 coup de coeur !!!
some of these songs feel like spells written specially for me and this year of my life.
Looking forward to The Roundhouse in Jan :D
I'm really into voices and i know what i like immediately---just heard her for first time on "Wanderlust" on Netflix. she does remind me of different things i've known; kind of a combination of early 70's folk and some stripped down British post-punk i useta listen to. first scritti politti album?
real early scritti politti and they have the Rough trade connection!
Alice Smith is plainly magnificent. As mentioned in a previous, strangely disappeared comment, although she does miss and flatten a note or two here, her opening phrasings, and various others throughout, are a descant to her underlying and implicit melody.
In her own incomparably expressive style, but in common with the respectively unique styles of the singing and playing of other original artists like Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Richard Thompson, Archie Shepp and more, Alice alternates conventional melody with both descant and discord to evoke and provoke the emotional and conceptual sense of what she sings and writes about.
She doesn't appeal to convention and she doesn't pander to it either.
She doesn't do nursery rhymes, and brother, she won't sell out regardless of what anyone will or won't buy.
The sense in her descants of being flat, out of tune or discordant is intentional; she often sings about the disjunction (discord) between hopes and wishes versus lumpen mundane perversity - or life and love gone wrong.
Her discord at 0:38 is intentional for this reason and she intentionally does it every time she sings that song.
Jingle bells, she doesn't do.
Whenever she does miss or inadvertently flatten a note, she no doubt rues it and curses herself, but the purity and veracity of her expression, her soul, just turns the mistake into yet another evocative expression of the emotional freight she's carrying and delivering.
The integrity of her intention and feeling turns any errors into further permutations of the eloquence that repeatedly just roils up out of the honesty of her gut.
Sometimes she's a conflagration, sometimes she's all broken down, like us.
Everybody who knows and cares enough about honest music is going to be talking about her for a hundred years from now; everybody's going to be talking about how she burned the whole place down.
ua-cam.com/video/aHp8ZQJx2FE/v-deo.html
and
ua-cam.com/video/xlFGCna3-Jc/v-deo.html
But there's not much point in any of this for anyone who doesn't know, norr want to know, much about these aspects of music in general and singing in particular, and who doesn't really care if they know what they're talking about or not.
But it's all right, if one doesn't know or really care, there's no need to say anything.
Other than that, she was plainly a bit nervous, which is a little unexpected, but probably because there seems to be no sense in which she's any kind of one trick pony.
She's one of the most uninhibited and unaffected performers anyone will ever see, but that's not her only trick . . . she knows what it's like on the other side too.
Beautiful
Woah! This Is The Kit!
absolutely fantastic
The browns beanie... YES.
yeeees !!! they are great as always!!!!
Hermoso!
Her vocals seem quite similar to Joni Mitchell's. Before seeing who this was, I thought I was transported back in time.
I totally agree omg!!
Melt think I wanna go watch get my tickets.
please invite Peach Pit to have a tiny desk concert, i'd love to see them play live in this location!
...lovely..
this is the kit: triangles are tricky
alt-j: triangles are my favourite shape
I went to the same place.
Very interesting progect!
With the hat and the ears, I keep expecting her to say INT MILK BRILLIANT?!?!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Impressive intro
Cool, very cool.