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The Quickening | 
| Artist: Kathryn Williams
Label: One Little Indian
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 6807
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.5
EAN: 5016958119126
ASIN: B0031NC6Q4
Release Date: February 22, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | 50 White Lines | | • | Just A Feeling | | • | Winter Is Sharp | | • | Wanting Is Waiting | | • | Black Oil | | • | Just Leave | | • | Smoke | | • | Cream Of The Crop | | • | There Are Keys | | • | Noble Guesses | | • | Little Lesson | | • | Up North |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautiful Album July 30, 2010
Merseymum
This latest offering from Kathryn WIlliams is an absolute joy pleasure to listen to. I was blown away when I first heard it and it's now one of my favourites on my ipod.
 kathryn williams March 27, 2010
Mrs. Yvonne J. Overell (ilfracombe,devon,uk)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
some excellent tracks like White Lines and a few more mediocre ones but worth buying....a good listen
"Dreams are where inventions sleep" February 28, 2010
cathy earnshaw (Berlin, Germany)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"The Quickening" presumably refers to the increased speed & spontaneity with which Kathryn Williams recorded the songs for her eighth album - in four days, live, with a maximum of three takes and without the musicians having heard the melodies before. It's also a match for her contemplative lyrics.
I know people get annoyed if you pay too much attention to the lyrics, but hers are always reliably interesting; unlike so many female singer-songwriters or performers dominating the airwaves these days (who seem to overcompensate for a lack of authentic individuality with forced eccentricity), KW's feel natural and unpretentious. There are some great one-liners: "Watch you in my lunchtime / like a silent matinee show" or "The nerves down my arms hit like sparks". She loves similes!
The first track - 50 White Lines - is fantastic, with its jaunty rhythm and mechanical counting of the recorded voice. Winter is Sharp is also more quickly paced than the others (I never understood why Guardian journalists complain about her music being too one-paced and maudlin - it's not!). Kate St John, who was musical director for the phenomenal Nick Drake tribute concerts in January this year, produced the album with KW and plays accordion and hurdy gurdy. Neill MacColl, who was a session musician at the same shows and collaborated with KW on the last album, contributes banjo (which sounds great!), mandolin, and guitar playing.
The doll's house on the cover and the miniature figures which inhabit the pictures inside reflect a love of the small world, of detail & domesticity that you can hear in her music, too. The album hasn't quite managed to replace Little Black Numbers, Over Fly Over or Old Low Light in my affections yet, and there are two tracks which I couldn't warm to as much as the others (Little Lesson, Up North).
She's playing London's Purcell Room on 6 March and before that Manchester, Glasgow, and Newcastle.
Standouts (IMHO): 50 White Lines, Wanting and Waiting, Noble Guesses, Just Leave
Her best yet - and the others were good too! February 22, 2010
Simon Higgens (West Country, UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of Britain's finest singer/songwriters, Kathryn Williams wholly deserves the airtime that this album has enjoyed on national radio in the weeks leading up to its official launch. If you are new to her music, please ignore the Folk-Rock tag that the official review classes her as; that is a misnoma and her music is much more than that. She writes wonderfully crafted songs about contemporary issues and sings them beautifully. If you are not new to her music, you will not be disappointed with this album. In my humble opinion, I regard her music as highly as Richard Hawley.
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