LABEL: Flaming June Records

CAT NO: FLLP03

BARCODE: Independent

Tracklisting:

Side A
1. BIRDS FLY LOW
2. CHARLIE
3. THE FEAST
4. SUGAR
5. PAUSE

Side B
1. ALL LIVING THINGS
2. HEAVY LIGHTING
3. CAUGHT IN A SLING
4. BLOOD BEAN
5. DIMMER

Side C
1. FAKE YOUR DEATH
2. JENNIFER MACHE
3. YOUR MOUNTAINS
4. RABBIT PAW
5. SCIENCE OF SLEEP

Side D
1. LAST WALTZ
2. LITTLE DRAGON
3. WIRES
4. RED FLAGS
5. HABITS

KATIE KIM COVER & FLOOD

LP Black Vinyl

The Players

Katie Kim voice guitar piano drums bass
Aisling Browne voice
Jess Maderson cello
John Spud Murphy bass manipulation chimes
Deaf Joe Harney clarinet voice
Ray Kehoe guitar mellotron bass scapes
John Haggis drums scapes

Written, recorded and produced by Katie Kim
Co- produced and recorded with John Haggis in Granny Studios, Waterford and my bedroom. Mastered by Alex Lennon.

Katie Kims second album Cover and Flood is a dark, haunting piece from the fiercely talented Irish songstress. Its musically situated somewhere between P.J. Harveys Let England Shake and Portisheads Third. Its right up there with Cathy Davey, Villagers, Lisa Hannigan and other more polished outfits. Yet, that is as far as the comparison goes. Katie Kims style is entirely of her own making.Lets just put this out there, there has yet to be an album this year which in my humble opinion surpasses this work. Katie Kim has created something incredibly rare. It is an album which has authenticity, impact and unquestionable prowess. It really is a privilege to get to listen to this standard of music.
COCK&BULLTV

Let us get to the heart of the matter straight away: Katie Kims Cover And Flood is very, very good. Appealingly minimal half-whispered melodies blend with primitive guitar arpeggios, or pianos and cellos, or organs and harmoniums, or drum-machine beatz, or electronic fuzz, and over it all varying degrees of echo, reverb, distortion and background noise wash like a comforting lo-fi sea.
HOT PRESS 2012

Cover And Flood conjures an atmosphere thats instantly familiar, in much the same way as other innovators The xx and James Blake. Staying in character for the duration, she immerses the listener in her world for 50 minutes, transporting them from the mundaneness of an overcrowded 8.45am train to the dark of a high-ceilinged townhouse in the throes of night, with just a few well places strings and ethereal vocals. Or in the case of the haunting Habits, a plinky-plonky piano that someones dead grandmother probably played. It shows the talent is there, but the Waterford ladys passion is in idea-forming, not in tidying up for any record companies that might be passing through her basement recordings. It indicates that not one sound is there by accident, its been pored over. It proves shes an artist of the purest kind, a visionary.
HEINEKEN MUSIC REVIEW 2011

Katie Kim is unique in her art form. Her style is sweetly dissonant and hypnotic, created with the use of looped harmonies and effects pedals. She drowns her audience in velvety vocals and haunting melodies that pirouette around thundering guitar arpeggios, tied together with a dreamy gossamer ambience akin to that of Mazzy Star or Beach House.
FLIPITTV.COM 2012

Waterford songstress Katie Kim offers a glance at her forthcoming sophomore release, Cover and Flood. Heavy Lighting is a slowcore waltz at the bottom of the ocean, steeped in gloomy ambience. Like the echo chamber divinity of a Zola Jesus ballad or CocoRosies dank navet, Irish native Kim writes a soft dirge. Heavy with bare gossamer isolation, the track eventually rises to the elegant, murky cloud of its conclusion, a total-bummer canticle reminiscent of Long Division-era Low or DM Stiths Braid of Voices.
GARBAGE DAYS 2011

Katie Kim, also known as Katie Sullivan, is a singer-songwriter act out of Dublin. I quickly fell in love with the double album Cover and Flood: 20 songs of wistful sounds from the Irish songstress. There are lovely melodies throughout, and a downhearted sound to her music which only make her compositions sound all the more emotive. Shes got some really fragile, delicate sounding vocals not unlike that of Warpaints Jenny Lee Lindberg that just lures you in. Before you know it, youve listened to the same song over and over
HEARD INSTINCT 2011

Gorgeous material from Katie Kim. I can definitely hear Linda Perhacs piano/cello influence in Pause which perfectly compliments her fragile voice and melodies. Any fans of early Warpaint/White Hinterland are going to love this.
DIPPED IN DOLLARS 2011