2009: Coquette
Coquette is Katy Carr's third album and received glowing music reviews in the UK media upon its release in November 2009, 'Quite simply it is a masterpiece,'. Her single Kommander's Car (taken from the album Coquette and remastered for the Paszport 2012 release) is a tense-stringed, four-minute true narrative account and inspired by the last 80 metres of a successful escape made by Kazimierz Piechowski from Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1942 in a Steyr 220 car belonging to Rudolf Höss the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.
A quote from the Sunday Mercury made an important point about Carr's musical sound, although inspired by topics from World War II and the 1940s, her music is definitely 'state of the art' and contemporary, if you're expecting the record to sound like a lost Andrews Sisters 78 then you soon need to think again. The first real 'song' here, 'Sparkle' (which displaces the tiny glockenspiel and vocal refrain of 'Star Song') is all rolling drums, pinched and jazzy guitar and plucked strings, with Carr's voice floating in from the school of disembodied ethereality. She actually sounds a little like Beth Gibbons after considerably fewer cigs, but her spectral tones are enormously attractive and while the subject matter may seem anachronistic, the sound itself is state of the art.
Katy Carr's album Coquette was listed by Brett Anderson of the English alternative rock band Suede (band) as one of his top ten albums of 2011 alongside The Horrors, Björk, Kate Bush Bon Iver, Wild Beasts, The Kills and Little Dragon.
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