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I Am Kloot live at 93 Feet East
John Bramwell’s I Am Kloot have somehow managed to craft several of the best records of the past few years and yet inexplicably remain under-the-radar of most people. They’re about to release their 4th studio album in the garb of ‘I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge’, an unreserved tapestry of Lou Reed-esque lyricisms and telescopic instrumentations.
Playing London's 93 Feet East while suffering from an almost crippling vocal complaint Bramwell nonetheless had the stage grace of Jason Pierce at the height of Spiritualized mania, with that same wordsmith wonder and dragging room presence. Struggling through the first few acoustic tunes he inescapably fell into the vocal marvel that he's usually associated and while the set built, Bramwell pushing himself, the new material that lines the forthcoming record spilled into the audience with a sense of brilliance.
They're a band for people who recognise good music, well crafted songs and an authentic ability to fashion obscure harmonies with a classical song writing sense. I Am Kloot may be limited in fan base as most people won't understand how paradisiacal their music is, unable to grasp the ideas that their records hold, the sophistication or tumbling rock 'n' roll ethos that drive the songs into areas most artists don't dare push. However, for the people the tracks do touch, they touch in a big way. The audience weren't there to see a pan-flashing hype-rider but a group of artists whose music they utterly believe in, respect without question and have enclosed themselves in for the past few years.
Singing along positively isn't out of the question, not that any of the crowd could match Bramwell's scaling voice that grew in strength as the show persisted until it eventually exploded, but the songs are ones so rich in poetry you can easily settle back to just enjoy the ride. As so many did in each case.
It's a shame that we pay so much attention these days to cheap indie bands that wouldn't hold a flame to anything this chaotically bedazzling, but I Am Kloot are a band that rest their future on the strength of their compositions and now at last their time may be coming. For the disillusioned of 2007, this is a band who should be on your Christmas wish list, their new record being one of the best gifts you're likely give or receive this year.
Don't be fooled any longer by second rate bands and indulge yourself in the wholehearted poetry and delightfully controlling enchantment of I Am Kloot.
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