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MARCUS AMAKER Features Editor
TIDY Kinnie Starr
(out of four stars)
When an artist sites Black Sabb
De La Soul, Stevie Wonder,
Elvis Costello and PJ Harvey P"j
as influences, it's no surprise mk
the music is nearly impossible |
to put into one category.
This is the case with Tidy, I
the excellent debut CD from I
Canada's outspoken female I
singer-songwriter Kinnie Starr. I
Kinnie Starr's music is, in I
equal parts, complicated, I
melodic, brilliant and crazy. I
One minute she sounds like 4 I
Track Demo -era PJ Harvey I
("Ophelia," "Stiff Sour Lemon I
Rind") or an aggressive punk 1
rocker ("Woven"). On other I
songs she toys with fuzzy hip- I
hop ("Spring Again") or funk |
("Rime Gone Rong").
And just when it seems |
she's done it all, she throws in
spoken word poetry and a
bilingual song about
appreciating life ("Praise!").
And surprisingly, it works brilliar
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Beneath the surface, she's as passiona
about visual art, knowledge and trul
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te about everybody being, "like one tree
Ji grown from the sun." In "Loons," she
says, "the leaves are turning generously
es into the colors that reside in me."
st "Tidy" is an ironic name because
ig the album is anything but neat and
is structured. Starr experiments often
with noises and
sounds.
, "Um...ah" is a
I two-minute
I .
I interlude
featuring
| nothing but a
I distorted piano.
"Simple" is a ,
I deceptively sexy
I spoken-word (
? poem complete {
with bells and
I multi-layered ]
vocals. "Praise!"
JraH sounds like it ?
^Pll|i was inspired by r-?
I African tribal
I music, and a lot
I of the other
songs are
interrupted by W<
strange phone FI
messages from
is people saying things like "butter
yellow...it's my favorite color."
h Although the album is uneven at
>r times, Tidy is a solid release from a
?s strikingly original artist. I_
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