New album Childqueen sounds just as good as The Visitor (2016) to my ears, both succesfully mixing genres and styles in a very convincing old-school but contemporary production. She's obviously a great musician and composer, maybe doesn't have the hooks (or the desire) to go full pop but certainly the talent.
Anyone seen her live?
― niels, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 08:31 (seven years ago)
<3 her
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 10:02 (seven years ago)
didn't realise there is a new album out
Was going to start a thread. She’s pretty wonderful yet woefully ignored it seems. She apparently wrote, produced and played most everything on the new one.
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:24 (seven years ago)
feel like fans of St Vincent might like this too, has that artsy/complex/conceptual pop vibe, more understated and groovy though
― niels, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:50 (seven years ago)
I like the new album, but I'm not sure yet if I love it as much as The Visitor. "Honeycomb" and "Gramma Honey" are all time.
― monotony, Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:51 (seven years ago)
My brain is fried and I don't know how to speak about music anymore, but this album has been quite the comforting balm over the last several days.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:19 (seven years ago)
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/12/619294441/on-childqueen-kadhja-bonet-makes-nearly-every-sound-herself
Tom Moon talks about her on NPR, I hadn't heard of her before.
Kadhja Bonet grew up in a family surrounded by music — she learned to play the violin and the viola, studied music theory, but then pursued a degree in film. After graduating, she dove back into music. Her sophomore album, Childqueen shows Bonet's idiosyncratic talent.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 June 2018 05:12 (seven years ago)
Love this album. Great escape from all the negative drama in the zeitgeist. This will get played in the mornings, at night, and in the car.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:28 (seven years ago)
3 track ep of album "outtakes" out today. All divine.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 October 2018 17:14 (seven years ago)
i need to thank piccadilly records for making childqueen their #1. it's incredible. truly incredible. one of the coolest albums i've heard in many months.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:20 (six years ago)
can't stand st vincent. this is rough around the edges, otherworldly, sublime... not in the same world for me.
This is a great album. I literally have no idea what St Vincent sounds like, but if I had to reach for a comparison, it strikes me as what an American version of Broadcast might sound like.
― rob, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:48 (six years ago)
Okay i'm v much into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJysLNfEm0
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:31 (three years ago)
yeah, lovely.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 February 2022 01:51 (three years ago)
All her new tracks are great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nEvNpeV8RI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdMesdSO_14
― nashwan, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 09:30 (three years ago)
Nice. The 2010s poll reminded me how good Childqueen was so I'm primed anew for more now kthx.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:19 (three years ago)
also nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmD3ag5L3l8
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 27 November 2022 15:07 (two years ago)
not feeling the xmas album too much tbh
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 04:32 (two years ago)