User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The third full-length release from California electronic producer Katie Gately was inspired by her own pregnancy.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Houndstooth
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Experimental Electronic
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 3 out of 4
-
Mixed: 1 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
The WireApr 6, 2023This album emerges as too tangled to be pulled into a simplistic linear narrative; throughout, innocence and trauma co-mingle both lyrically and sonically. Fawn/Brute is as complex and irresistible as its themes would suggest. [Apr 2023, p.54]
-
Apr 6, 2023Gately's meditations on mothers and daughters, and bodies creating and betraying, are fascinating, and Fawn/Brute's expressions of the darker corners of childhood and motherhood might be even more revealing than more conventional musical memoirs.
-
Apr 6, 2023While the album’s more maximalist aesthetic may bring challenges for the casual listener, for those who commit it succeeds in being a cohesive and impactful listen.
-
Apr 6, 2023You will find little robust melody or Piano Man finesse in these strange symphonies. But rummaging through Gately’s mazy, beautiful disorder is a beguiling adventure in its own right.