The Kindling is singer-songwriter Guy Weir with Tomás García on drums, and Ben Ramster on bass playing their own brand of widescreen minimal indie-folk. The Kindling released their debut album By Morning in 2015 and has played widely in the South East of UK, including David Byrne’s meltdown festival in London the same year.
Recorded in lock-down, the second album Kármán Line is a collection of recent singles and new material that expands the band’s sound to add chamber-pop, lo-fi grooves, and Latin rhythms to their tender indie-folk harmonies.
“Milk Teeth”, the latest single from Kindling, is a beautifully stripped-down exploration of the cluttered and mixed-up world that is the human experience. The hushed vocals and subdued yet catchy bassline create a compelling and pensive call and response, almost as if music, in a literal sense, in this case, is in some way the answer to all life’s major ponderings and insecurities. The full album, Kármán Line, is out July 29.
On “Milk Teeth” I was trying to capture some ancient tribal voodoo-y-ness. The song is about all the crazy and desperate ways we can sometimes try to gain control of emotional chaos. The superstitions and religions that prove futile, but offer up hope so we try them anyway,” says the band.
