A few more reviews of the 'foxes ep'….. one is quite complimentary, and the other is really rather not… but, well, the review is kind of badly written, and is a bit more concerned with throwing mud than actually forming an argument, so I'm not too bothered… tell me what you think…...
Penny Black Music
K Anderson: Foxes EP
Reviewed By: Anthony Middleton
Label: Anderson Records
Format: CDS
From the opening, stumbling syncopated beats of 'High Horse', this short offering from singer songwriter K Anderson is an arresting change from the usual troop of troubadours armed with an acoustic guitar and lot of problems to air.
Sporting a gravely, hoarse voice, Australian-raised, London-based Anderson seems happy to genre hop, with 'I'm Done, I'm Done, I'm Done' and 'High Horse' both employing sparse keyboards loops and drones. The former, a wounded song about being trapped and feeling so homesick-he actually misses Hackney-is nearly funky in its beat. 'High Horse' is a deceptively simple, though methodically well structured affair, where Anderson claims he "wouldn't write a song about you".
While on the face of it the best crafted song, 'Same Kind of Grim', is on more straightforward singer songwriter acoustic territory. Perhaps catchier than the other songs on the EP, it is also the most unadventurous. 'Foxes' on the other hand, is a slow bluesy contemplation of the similarities of anonymous human life in the city with that of an urban fox. "Part of the gift of growing older is that you don't believe in anything anymore," gives an idea of the tone going on here. While acoustic guitar driven, a few electronic effects are used to give a sure sense of atmosphere and this is the most effective number.
The final song, 'Teethmarks', is nearly a cappella, though with something sounding like bottles being struck as accompaniment. In truth, it ends up sounding more like a demo than an innovation.
Alt Sounds
November 14, 2008, 05:28 PM
This has to be one of the worst CD's I've been handed all year, and there has been some pretty terrible stuff released this year. 'K' has little to no song-writing skill and his lyrical delivery is so annoying I could hardly make it through the whole CD (and there's only 5 tracks).
God forbid having to sit through a full length release by this guy. Ropey guitar playing and an occasional xylophone fail to impress and add nothing to lifeless songs. Lyrically awful, musically uninspiring, rubbish production and generally no saving grace.
Try your hardest to never hear this guy.