Staff Picks - October 2022

ON REPEAT: October 2022

The Kili Presents team highlight the tracks they have been listening to in October. Take a read for some inspiration for what should be in your rotation this month.

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Madge's Declaration by DEADLETTER

“We wanted to make something that had elements of humour and danceability, trying to explore a genuinely terrifying idea in a manner which mirrors our cultural fascination with it. Our tendency to work around the drumbeat and bassline is highly evident here, with the song climaxing in a cacophony of primal ecstasy.”

- Zac Lawrence for CLASH

Consistent Dedication by Heartworms

“I wrote it about a year ago in the room where the music video for ‘What Can I Do’ was filmed…I listened to the song ‘The Skins’ by Scissor Sisters and fell in love with its funky guitar that comes in and out throughout the whole track. ‘Consistent Dedication’ slowly became something more in my mind, I wanted it to build, be memorable and short. I had this constant thought of a dog barking near the end too so I YouTubed 'Rottweiler bark' and shoved that sound effect in which you can hear start around 2:10… it really gave this dark dimension to the track, ugliness of mankind, ominous barking and me shouting my poor little lungs out at the end.”

- Heartworms for THE LINE of BEST FIT

Be Careful With Yourself by Julia Jacklin

“Making a record to me has always just been about the experience, a new experience in a new place with a new person at the desk, taking the plunge and just seeing what happens… For the first time I stepped away from the guitar, and wrote a lot of the album on the Roland keyboard in my apartment in Montreal with its inbuilt band tracks. I blu-tacked reams of butcher paper to the walls, covered in lyrics and ideas, praying to the music gods that my brain would arrange everything in time.”

- Julia Jacklin for Under The Radar

Panic Calls by Low Hummer

“There was a sort of conversation floating in the air that inspired the lyrics of Panic Calls. Dan and I wrote as though we were trying to ring crisis lines; the discourse of the song shifts between us trying to explain our feelings, then always being met with generic, automated responses. The intention was to sort of mirror the futility of mental health support and hopefully, show how relatable that issue is.”

- Low Hummer for Mix It All Up

Space Cadet by Redolent

“Danny wrote the wee synth bit for it a long time ago and I really love it…I did the verses recently actually after talking to a guy on the phone while trying to upgrade my mobile contract lol. The chorus is from when I was fifteen.”

- Robin Herbert for Reflector

No Hope by Yasmin Coe

‘Sullen lines like, “Hope’s a silly thing to have”,  are cast into the glittering fog, freely and without proportion. They are left to vye with the reverb, the twiddling riffs, the intimate vocal, before dissolving in the redemption of chord-rich chorus.

To be filed alongside mist-veiled dreamweavers Alvvays, Bleach Lab, DIIV et al, Yasmin Coe burgeons brightly as the newest offering from Manchester’s latest wave of tantalising alternative acts.’

- So Young Magazine on No Hope

Host by TVAM

“Host harks back to his debut album with the sounds I described back then as something from Assault On Precinct 13 and early John Carpenter soundtracks that still sound fucking ace today. A nice mellow sonic blast of ingenious stuff.”

- TVAM for Louder Than War

Drive by Gretel Hänlyn

“I feel so excited by what I’m doing right now musically which I’m taking as a really good sign that I’m doing the right thing and I feel like I’m getting closer and closer in my musical self discovery with each track. I also love how I’m utilising my femininity and then total neutralness in my music, girly creepy singing behind totally genderless music. I’ve been really getting into lyricism as well, again not restraining myself and allowing myself to say things that before I’d perhaps think twice about or think was uncool.”

- Gretel Hänlyn for She Makes Music

I Tried by Elizabeth M. Drummond

“I think I wrote and produced this song in its entirety on the one day, which is rare. I will often abandon something if I don’t finish it very soon after starting. This song is just a reflection of how I was feeling after coming out of a relationship that had run its course.”

- Elizabeth M. Drummond for THE LINE of BEST FIT

Untethered by PVA

"Untethered is a song about release. It’s our current set opener and an introduction to our industrial arm. We wrote it in one session in a burst of chaotic catharsis. The lyrics follow a character being freed from imaginary tethers and experiencing the earth under their feet again."

- PVA for BIZZARRE

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