Kate Stables is revisiting her fourth album as This Is The Kit, last year’s “Moonshine Freeze,” via a new remixes EP, the lead track from which is flat-out gorgeous.
Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables is revisiting her acclaimed fourth album as This Is The Kit, last year’s Moonshine Freeze, in the form of a new remix EP, out today, July 19, on Rough Trade Records. Our first listen of Moonshine Freeze Remixes comes in the form of its opening track, “Bullet Proof (Blue States Remix),” premiering here at Paste. You can hear the gorgeous rework down below.
“I spent way more time than usual working on it, trying to do it some justice,” Andy Dragazis (aka Blue States) says of the remix. “I love the vocals, so the aim was to keep true to those and add my own bells and whistles around them.” We share Dragazis’ admiration for Stables’ “uniquely bone-chilling voice,” which Max Freedman lauded in his review of Moonshine Freeze for Paste, in which he deemed the LP ”[her] best album to date.”
“Such an honor to be remixed by Blue States. He’s done a very lush job,” Stables says. “I love getting to hear glimpses of my twin sister’s voice on the track. And he’s managed to bring out some of the details in the original recording and build them into a whole new space. It’s given the song a totally new lease of life.”
Album opener “Bullet Proof” is one of three Moonshine Freeze tracks to get the remix treatment on Stables’ new EP, which also includes reworks by Drones Club (“Moonshine Freeze”), Clas Tuuth (“Two Pence Piece”) and LONA (also “Moonshine Freeze”). The original song’s delicate, chamber-folk sound doesn’t exactly scream “ripe for a remix,” but Blue States makes synth-pop magic with it, expanding on the stripped-down track’s subtle electronic accents and building out its minimalist percussion. The result is a mesmerizing rework that stands apart from “Bullet Proof” while remaining true to the wistful beauty of the original composition.
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