“... it sounds like I'm listening to a shade of a brilliant actor being brought back from across the great divide. Spine tingling stuff.” Incendiary Magazine Jan 2015 Click for full review ...
KIN is an Anglo/Dutch quartet based in Groningen. They frame shimmering, orchestral guitars and warm vocals with driving beats and bass, animated by noisy trip-hop and post-rock to shape expansive and hypnotic songs that tread a line between the concrete and the spectral.
Here's a glimpse of their new material ... PASSING CAR
KIN began as the solo moniker of Kim R. Foster in Manchester (UK), where the album, ‘Flickering’ was produced in 2011. Soon after, she moved to Groningen and with members of local bands, Vox Von Braun and The Swains, produced the intimately cerebral, ‘found-sound’ e.p. ‘SOON’; a home recorded trip initially inspired by the temporary closure of the band’s rehearsal space in the Summer of 2012 that developed into a demonstration of a collective love of using simplistic noises to make something more complex. The songs feature the domestic sounds of scissors opening and closing, a washing machine reaching the end of its spin cycle and what sounds like an air raid siren. Through its process, KIN shrugged off the ‘solo project’ header and established themselves as a band.
Onstage, KIN guide audiences through an ethereal and engaging experience. Altogether mesmerising, limb-jerking, visceral and warm.
KIN’s new album ’Slowtv’ was recorded in five days in Manchester (UK) in the Autumn of 2014. It has been co-produced, mixed and engineered by Simon Archer (P.J. Harvey, Pixies) and is due for release later this year.