Left of centre folk pop

4 MP3 Songs in this album (16:40) !
Related styles: ROCK: Experimental Rock, FOLK: Folk Pop



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Rolling Stone
âThereâs a theory that certain musical frequencies affect people emotionally. Katell Keineg has found them. Itâs damn near impossible to listen to her earthy and ethereal voice without feeling the spirit move you.â

Time Magazine
âFolksy and hypnoticâ

Newsweek Magazine
âKatell Keinegâs new album, âJetâ, meshes rock muscularity and heady emotionalism. We havenât graduated to the literary complexity of the 51/2-minute opus âBattle of the Treesâ yet, but we know a good riff when we hear one; by the time the song sweeps into its exquisitely layered crescendo, weâre deep inside.â

The New York Times
âKatell Keineg has a voice so charged with feeling that it lifts everything she sings to the level of a primal wailâ

The Times (London)
âKeineg is a singer and songwriter who gains her power by juxtaposing ugly with beautiful and then letting the two battle it out for ascendancy.â

New Yorker
âThe voice of Katell Keineg is a beautiful and wild force of natureâ
The Irish Times
â⦠it was Katell Keinegâs slow-burning fuse, igniting on her magnificent âThe Gulf Of Arabyâ, that truly captured the essence of (Victor) Jara.â

Tom Moon,
National Public Radio (US)
â Here are wildly inspired songs filled with literate and mystical images, songs that aspire to the sprawl and sweep of epic novels.â

The Guardian
âKeinegâs quirky compositions, infused with a haunting, ethereal quality, are something entirely of her own creation. The haunting becomes almost literal on âLeonorâ, a jaunty setting of a Guardian obituary of the Surrealist painter Leonor Fini.â

The Vancouver Sun
âTruly weirdâ

LA Times
âConveying a nearly beatific sense of joy in performanceâ

The Independent (UK)
âSpacious and spookyâ

NME
âThe arrangement of the song (Mama, Youâve Been On My Mind), leaves everybody in bits. Thereâs no instruments involved, which is something Sinead (Oâ Connor) has done in the past, but now sheâs got Katell Keineg singing in a heavenly counterpoint â exotic and sad like nothing Iâve heard before.â

The Philadelphia Inquirer
âKeinegâs best work -â the transfixing inventory of wild hope, âThe Gulf Of Araby,â the bitter âFranklinâ -â exhibits a poignancy we don't hear much any more.

NY Magazine
â⦠a voraciously poetic sense of language.â

Musician Magazine
âMore than a well-crafted piece of product, âJetâ will intoxicate anyone who still believes pop music can transcend dreary reality.â

The San Francisco Chronicle
âKatell Keineg defies facile categorization. Fascinated by unlikely instrumentation, Keineg also writes some of the smartest lyrics around.â

Esquire Magazine
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ââJetâ is a weird album; it seems to have been made in a bubble, without any regard for marketing or programming. (It) vexes you like a dream: Thereâs logic to it, but itâs buried way down deepâ

Time Out New York
âKatell Keineg is a genre-straddling songwriter and performer â unfortunately, sheâs so hard to pigeonhole that sheâs still flying below the radar despite an arresting body of work. Her music, however, remains as strong, sly and beautiful as ever.â

LA Weekly
ââWhatâs The Only Thing Worse Than The End Of Time?â a hypnotically contrapuntal four-song EP featuring a haunting rendition of Nick Drakeâs âRiver Manâ. Not bad for her first recording in five years. Our hope is that this time she doesnât find the buzz from the music bizz too âintoxicatingâ and wander away like before, just as she was cultivating a small but devoted following among critics and fans with âO Seasons, O Castlesâ and âJetâ.â