Kaki King is an unusual and welcomed acoustic guitar stylist. She issues calming New Age–style instrumentals but also takes off into space. “Battle Is a Learning” is a powerful and intimidating piece that rattles the walls, while “We Did Not Make the Instrument, It Made Us” uses her virtuosity to transport us to a gentler place where the atmosphere is soothing and yet on the precipice of somewhere alluring and unknown. The album is a companion piece to King’s new multimedia performances, which use projection mapping to present the guitar as an ontological tableau rasa in a creation myth. But one can just adjust the headphones and take the ride.
More By Kaki King
- 2006
- 2020
- 2003
- 2012
- 2008
- Radiohead
- Russian Circles
- Fleet Foxes
- Courtney Barnett
- Death Cab for Cutie
- The War on Drugs
- Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions