Kitchen is the recording project of James Keegan from Rochester, NY and “whoever is in town”, a project you might remember from the album town on Drunk With Love Records a few years ago. Kitchen has a brand new album on the way, titled Pussy Willow, a record that sees the band transcend their lo-fi beginnings into something a little more developed. “We used to be a lo-fi band,” says Keegan, “but now we’re more regular-fi, slowcore / quiet pop.”
The rotating supporting cast this time features Ethan Hasiuk (drums), Chloe Wehner (violin), Jake Bellisimo (viola), Rose Love (bass) and Sabrina Nichols (guitar), who work with Keegan to make ten songs that are rich and reflective. The sound still draws from that of the previous record, none of the intimacy lost in the evolution of the style but a great sense of warmth gained.
Today we’re happy to premiere ‘claws’, a song that introduces what to expect from Pussy Willow. It sounds at once bright and bittersweet, like getting caught in a sunshower or watching the world go by from a window on a quiet Spring morning. Piano sparkles as Keegan delivers their vocals in a plaintive mumble, strings arriving to bring a Sufjan-style grace to the song’s indie pop skeleton.
transmission towers looking frigid in warm weather
standing still against the blue
grey and sober like a puddle in November
as i waited for you
