This is the Kit has shared their new single, a cover of Gruff Rhys’ Sensations in the Dark which came about when they toured the States together last year.
Michael Dixon, who lives and breathes vinyl recordings, suggested they do a split single, each of them playing a song by the other person. Kate shared: “And this is the song I chose from Gruff’s overwhelmingly excellent repertoire. I just very much love the lyrics and the horn line and how difficult it was for me to play as I’m really bad at bar chords and changing from one to the other quickly. In the end, I cheated and played the riff on one string.
“When recording this song, I really enjoyed indulging in things I love messing about with, like playing the recorder, rhythms and holding the ‘fill’ button down on the Casio keyboard beat that I was using for the whole duration of the song.
“The lyrics are so excellent and the melodies in the song are just a flipping pleasure to sing. It was very fun to make and I’m very grateful to Mike for suggesting the project and especially to Gruff for lending me the song to play.”
Stream ‘Sensations in the Dark’ https://thisisthekit.ffm.to/sitd