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Album Club Special - Kite by Kirsty MacColl

Steve Lamacq Album Club

Steve's final Album Club is a personal favourite - Kirsty MacColl's Kite. Listen along and join in the conversation via #6MusicAlbumCLub.

Steve's final Album Club is a personal favourite - Kirsty MacColl's Kite.

Kite was the breakthrough second album by Kirsty MacColl, released in 1989. The album was produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, and it was her first album for Virgin Records. The album included MacColl's hit cover of the Kinks' "Days", as well as two tracks written with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

In a 1991 interview with Melody Maker, MacColl commented, "With Kite, I felt I had to prove that I wasn't this bimbo girl-next-door I'd been portrayed as. That had been hanging around my neck like an albatross for so long, and I wanted to make the point that, yes, I can write a song, pal! I didn't feel that I had to prove myself this time."

On its release, Dave Jennings of Melody Maker described the album as a "thoughtful, mature, yet sometimes exhilarating LP" and "cerebral but instantly likeable; never wild or abandoned, but always intriguing". Aside from some "tender moments", he considered most of Kite to show MacColl "on the attack", with her "carefully-layered, deadpan vocals" suiting the "anger" in her lyrics. Simon Williams of New Musical Express considered it "an old-fashioned album" with "proper songs [and] resolutely orthodox instruments". He concluded, "Kite is charming rather than classy. Everything is pleasantly down-to-earth, sweet and sour stories from a woman's point of view which always avoid being emotionally extreme."

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Music Played

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Innocence

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Free World

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Mother's Ruin

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Days

  • Kirsty MacColl

    No Victims

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Fifteen Minutes

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Don't Come the Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Tread Lightly

  • Kirsty MacColl

    What Do Pretty Girls Do?

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Dancing in Limbo

  • Kirsty MacColl

    The End of a Perfect Day

  • Kirsty MacColl

    You & Me Baby

    • Kite.
    • Edsel.
    • 12.

  • King Creosote

    Blue Marbled Elm Trees

    • Blue Marbled Elm Trees.
    • Domino Recording Co.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Oct 2023 18:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music