Okay Kaya - Watch This Liquid Pour Itself - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This record dynamites the moss-covered castle walls of 2005's InchBlack Sheep BoyInch to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, InchThe Stage NamesInch is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment in the modern world. Reverberant with echoes of Motown snap and girl group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs of dirty rock 'n' roll, shining with the shimmy of Bo Diddley, with the shimmer of the Velvets, with the swagger of the Faces, and with a glittery sprinkling of cheap perfume to disguise the stink, InchThe Stage NamesInch is a relentlessly paced and ruthlessly thrilling journey. Album Tracks 1. Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe 2. Unless It Kicks 3. Hand to Take Hold of the Scene, a 4. Savannah Smiles 5. Plus Ones 6. Girl in Port, a 7. You Can't Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man 8. Title Track 9. John Allyn Smith Sails

Even my subconscious is self-conscious,Inch Okay Kaya sings on InchInside Of A PlumInch, giving us a sense of the mental state she entered while making SAP, an album she wrote, performed, engineered, and produced alone, sometimes spending weeks at a time without social interaction. This is a concept album about consciousness in which Okay Kaya focuses her trademark combination of abstraction and wit on what happens to her mind unaccompanied, on her tendency to feel less like a human and more like the sticky secretion of a tree. After releasing her Spellemann Award winning album Watch This Liquid Pour Itself in January of 2020, Kaya left her home in New York and moved to Europe to create and show her various interdisciplinary exhibitions. Among others, she made an installation that amplified music made underwater and an interactive sculpture based on Jungian sandplay therapy for children. Between her exhibits, Kaya recorded through lockdowns by herself in the loaned studios of generous friends. SAP first grew from the first single InchSpinal TapInch about Kaya wandering in Berlin, tree-touching. InchSap reminds me of the bodily functions I need to remember to do, like sleep. One might say it 'resinates.'Inch The album was further inspired by Ketamine Therapy which is discussed in InchThe Inside Of A Plum.Inch Kaya explains, InchThe doctor said this treatment grows literal physical branches in your brain.Inch As she experimented with ego death, the subject of her song InchJazzerciseInch, Kaya found herself writing in the voices of fictional characters she'd encountered in other people's stories. In 'Jolene From Her Own Perspective,' she imagines Dolly Parton's nemesis responding to her song. In 'Origin Story,' Kaya writes as a mythical goddess frustrated with her creation myth. In 'I've Spent Forever Planning A Crisis,' Kaya responds to Cassavetes' film A Woman Under

In Okay Kaya songs, her world looks a lot like ours - Netflix, jetlag, vegan peanut butter and chocolate ice cream, lonely bowls of ramen, diet trends. But unlike ours, each of these vibrates and shimmers with deeper, darker meaning, with existential dread and desire for understanding. Through Norwegian-raised New Yorker Kaya's dreamy soft-focus lens, the language of Twitter memes becomes modernist poetry as her breathy contralto voice sings lines like, InchIf you don't love me at my guttural sound, you don't deserve me at my guttural sound.Inch This is Sade for nihilists. On the opening track of her new record, Watch This Liquid Pour Itself, out on January 24, 2020, from Jagjaguwar, she sings, InchI used to fight the feeling, always let it win.Inch As she transforms these feelings, defeats, and victories into songs, the lyrics often involve pools of sweat, oceans, and other forms of wetness. But Okay Kaya's world is not one of renewal and rebirth-it's not water at all, actually. InchIt's more like bile, Inch Kaya says, InchIt's what comes out in the purge.Inch In these songs, Kaya swims through her melancholy and anxiety-not as a way of cleansing herself, but as an understanding of their depths. Album Tracks 1. Baby Little Tween 2. Ascend and Try Again 3. Insert Generic Name 4. Overstimulated 5. Psych Ward 6. Gutteral Sounds 7. Asexual Wellbeing 8. Popcorn Heart 9. Mother Nature's B*tch 10. Hallelu Ya Hallelu Me 11. Symbiosis 12. Givenupitis 13. Helsevesen 14. Stonethrow 15. Zero Interaction Ramen Bar