Ken Yates - Quiet Talkers (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 2

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Katie Pruitt!!!!

 

Very excited about that feature!

On mobile right now. I'll make one in a bit if you don't make it first!

 

Very excited about that feature!

On mobile right now. I'll make one in a bit if you don't make it first!

 

Never made the thread but this record came in the mail a month early and it is really, really good. More songs that are very much in the vein of Quiet Talkers, a little more existentially sad. The B side is especially good, with “Half Clenched Teeth” as an early standout.

 

I've had the new one for a little while now. Big fan of it. I don't think it's nearly as stacked with great songs as Quiet Talkers, but has the same kind of magic that album did.

 

Yeah overall I think the last one had stronger writing and was more balanced. But his hooks are surprisingly sticky and they certainly recaptured the feel with a few more nuances. My biggest “note” is that I would have liked the featured vocalists to be more prominent.

 

I agree! Katie Pruitt’s feature especially is barely even audible.

 

new album is very enjoyable

 

This is fucking great. Had no idea that Quiet Talkers was his debut. Maybe it’s how the songs are so good or something in the lyrics made me think it was like, album 4 or 5, there idk, seemed to be so much history(?) to me in all the songs.

stumbled upon the new album today while pulling up QT and while I’m unhappy there is no thread and not hundreds of people talking about it because they should be, at least there’s a small group of folks enjoying this!

Gonna listen a lot on summer nights and definitely into the fall. Already one of my favorites for 2022.

 

Wait! This is his fourth album! I swear Amazon Music never showed Twenty-Three or Huntsville before but a write up of Cerulean kept saying things like “on his last records” which made me look again and oh shit! Now if I can ever stop listening to this and Coheed I can check those out. What a beautiful surprise!

 

Cerulean is growing on me like all hell. “Grocery Store” remains one of my favorite songs of the year. Posting the whole thing here for the lazy!

 

His albums are so easy to just put on the turntable on lazy evenings. I haven't fallen for this one on quite the level that I did for Quiet Talkers, but that one didn't really become a go-to until fall 2020, so I'm guessing Cerulean's time is still to come for me.

 

Quiet Talkers was a really special record for me in the pandemic, but Cerulean fits even better as a response to that moment. While the lyrics are a bit less "clever", I think that's because it's more of an internal journey, and the more I sit with it late at night the more I'm taken in by it.

 

I think it just has fewer songs that have really struck me yet. Doesn't mean they won't! It hasn't been one I've reached for a ton throughout the summer, but I think it'll come back into rotation now that temps are dropping a bit.

 

I love Cerulean, but am excited to pair it with fall weather. I think the songwriting here is better than Quiet Talkers overall. The song "Good Things" has been in regular rotation since the release.

 

New song is excellent

 

New songs next week! Still think Cerulean isn’t as good as Quiet Talkers but it’s still better than 99% of the singer songwriter slop out there.

 

I had to cover the election for work and was up until like 3 in the morning. Listened to a lot of Ken Yates albums that night. A nice balance between demoralizingly sad and calming/soothing. See also: Donovan Woods.

Looking forward to new stuff!

 

He's playing City Winery in ATL next week with Kathleen Edwards and I don't think I can miss that.