Reed KD is following a dream. It takes guts to do so. And I can't word it better than what's he's got on his official press release about the track "Space Vacuums" off of his latest When the Comet Comes : " 'Space Vacuums' was written at a crossroads in Reed's life that most can identify with: the pressure of growing older, finding a job and settling down. Reed took a different path. He quit his job, bought a van, started his own record label and set off across the country. He says, "There's no mystery [...]
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You might not have heard of Northern California resident, Reed KD, because he's an unlikely blog darling. His music is not groundbreaking or experimental; that is to say that Animal Collective fans may find him boring. His lush harmonies are immediately palatable his sound has been compared to the likes of Paul Simon and Elliott Smith. In Case The Comet Comes opens with "This Is It," a catchy as hell number that reminded me of early Shins. The foot-stomping, hand clapping "If The Tide Swings" follows and had my 15-month old daughter spinning in circles [...]
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Space Vacuums By Reed KD Album: If The Comet Comes Label: Dirty Laundry Genre: Northern Cali Countrified Indie Tags: countrified, indie, northern Cali Download : MP3 Audio Buy It Northern Cali-country indie tunes made at an easy, loping gait. This is track nine on Reed KD's new [...]
While writing his latest self-released album, In Case The Comet Comes, Santa Cruz, Calif.'s Reed KD spent the better of the last two years traveling the country and living out of a Volkswagen bus (a Vanagon, actually). The open highway can be a terrific muse: "Winding Roads" is about life on the move, featuring Reed's [...]
Here's a good first impression: Reed KD out of Santa Cruz, California. Right up my alley, really. Uptempo, spirited, folksy & rootsy. The bass drum makes me think of Zeppelin's "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp", and his voice sounds juuust a bit like Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses. Something about the annunciation. I dunno. I dig this one. Hear : If the Tide Swings (mp3) From his new album: In Case the Comet Comes [...]
In the spirit of great indie, Reed KD 's debut album, "In Case the Comet Comes," was recorded by Reed KD, mixed by Reed KD, performed by Reed KD . . . You get the idea. He makes folk/Americana, writing whistful songs of longing and love, and singing them in a straight-ahead, Earthy style. (The one exception is the Godawful "Hippie Chicks"-skip this one at all costs.) Great lyrics and solid songwriting mark the start of a promising career. If The Tide Swings
Guess who's back? Yep, Mr. Reed KD with his infectious folky americana songs! He's giving away a song from his album In Case The Comet Comes . It's a nice upbeat little number called "If The Tide Swings." Kelly over at The Gobbler's Knob has a good write up about his album. Check it . As he so correctly put it: " In Case The Comet Comes is quite the find for those of us who like our our folk [...]
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Musician Reed KD is an enthusiastic proponent of the DIY ethic. Not only did he engineer, produce and record his album 'In Case The Comet Comes,' he's also releasing the album today on his own Dirty Laundry label. Reed KD wrote the new album while living off the grid and out of a VW van in 2007 and 2008. With the help of his cousin (a videographer), Reed KD has also created two homemade music videos for his songs "Winding Roads," an intimate song about living out of his van, and the rowdy, bluegrassy [...]
Reed KD es un entusiasta propulsor de la etica 'DIY', no se conformo con producir y grabar el mismo su nuevo album 'In Case The Comet Comes' si no que tambien lo va a sacar en su propia disquera 'Dirty Laundry'. Reed, tambien escribio este nuevo larga duracion durante una especie de 'viaje espiritual' que realizo durante un año, viviendo en su van Volkswagen (valga la cuña), componiendo, siendo despertado por camiones de basura en las calles de L.A o huyendo de tornados en el Midwest. con la ayuda de su primo, [...]
A few weeks ago I hipped you to Left Coast folkie and Laurel Canyon-like troubador Reed KD . He's just put out his video for "Cactus Garden" his new album If The Comet Comes. (That title keeps making me think of Night of The Comet.) It's a nice bluegrass ditty accompanied by a fun, Muppet-like video.
"Winding Roads" - Reed KD Imagine Ben Folds singing lead for Simon & Garfunkel and you'll have a fast idea of what "Winding Roads" sounds like. The melancholy guitar-picking and sweet vocalizing is definitely a throwback and/or homage to S&G in their heyday, but I also love that the tenor voice here feels rounded and confident (i.e. Foldsian) rather than wispy and introverted. Given how many 21st-century singer/songwriters seem birthed straight from the forehead of Elliott Smith, I for one am delighted to hear a guy who sounds like he could belt out [...]
Singer-songwriter Reed KD has an address in Santa Cruz, CA, but changes are that he is driving around in a mini van to play and record a fresh of batch of songs, because that is what he did in 2007 and 2008. His new album In Case The Comet Comes is a musical travelogue about Winding Roads , Hippie Chicks and Space Vacuums . The fast rumbling drums are up front on most tracks, which might lead to speeding tickets when you pop it in your car audio player. [...]
1. AM Architect - "Next of Kin" (Bro Safari Remix)2. The Vagabond Opera - "Chimaeras Be Met"3. Hecuba - "Miles Away"4. Pretty Lights - "More Important than Michael Jordan"5. Pretty Lights - "Up & Down I Go"6. Nurses - "Catepillar Playground"7. Reed KD - "Winding Roads"8. Sharon van Etten - "For You"9. Vandaveer - "Woolgathering"10. Oneida - "I Will Haunt You"
*Rio En Medio - Fall Up* Reed KD - Winding Roads Cloud Cult - Take Your Medicine (Man Is Doomed Mix) Okkervil River - Pop Lie Rainbow Arabia - Haunted Hall
I'm not really sure what happens to folk music once you go west of the Rocky Mountains that makes it sound so peaceful. But, whatever those California liberals do to get that peaceful, easy feelin' is alright by me. Reed KD is another in a long line of folkies to come out of the Terminator state that produces lush harmonies with intricate work on the ol' string instruments. His harmonies a thick and lush like the work of The Mamas and The Papas and Simon and Garfunkel. Like the name [...]
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