Katie Gately Explained

Katie Gately
Years Active:2013–present
Background:solo_singer

Katie Gately is an American musician, composer, producer and sound designer[1] [2] based in Los Angeles, California.[3] [4] As well as her own releases she has remixed Björk[5] and Zola Jesus[6] and produced for serpentwithfeet.[7] Her most recent album, Fawn / Brute, was released on March 31, 2023.[8]

Background

Gately was raised in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Los Angeles to study at USC where she graduated with an MFA in Film Production, where she focused on Sound Design. Gately also holds a BA in Philosophy from Carleton College, and had focused on Philosophy of Music.[9]

After releasing singles on Blue Tapes, Fet Press, FatCat, and a self-titled mini album on Public Information,[10] Gately released her debut album Color in 2016.

Color

Her debut album Color was released in 2016[11] with Tri-Angle, and it meshed samples and found sounds with manipulations of her own voice to create maximalist electronic compositions deploying fractured rhythms, fierce licks and bold samples.[12] Will Neibergall writes in a Tiny Mix Tapes review, "While it has predictably little in common with anything else she’s done, Color shares the cinematic quality of the latter. Where her self-titled EP could soundtrack body horror or seismic intensity, Gately’s debut Tri Angle LP is darkly whimsical."[13] Clare Lobenfeld writes for Pitchfork, "Gately benefits from sound design know-how from her film production MFA studies at USC and her professional experience. This skill set benefits the intricacies of her beat constructions—harmonies built on tweaked vocal samples to bolster her own voice ("Sift"); cello and garbage-can percussion eloquently melding to make something reminiscent of grunge, but still reflective of current electronic trends at its core ("Frisk")."[14]

Loom

She returned to her family home in Brooklyn and started again, rebuilding the album around the track "Bracer", which was her mother’s favorite.[15] [16] [17]

Loom was critically acclaimed upon its release with publications such as The Guardian,[18] Pitchfork,[19] Paste,[20] The Quietus,[21] Loud and Quiet,[22] musicOMH,[23] Brooklyn Vegan[24] and The Financial Times including the album in their Best Albums of 2020.[25] [26] [27]

Pipes

Pipes was composed, recorded, produced and engineered by Gately,[28] and Quietus named Pipes as one of their albums of the year in 2014.[29]

Fawn / Brute followed in 2023.

Influences

Katie Gately mentions Kid A, Tarkovsky’s Stalker and The Mirror as a few of her early influences in music. She recalls and states "becoming obsessed with mostly British post-punk and then at the same time I was interested in Autechre and weird electronic music... It made me feel like, 'I don't know what I'm feeling, I don't know what this is, and I feel like something new.' It's very bizarre and uncomfortable and exciting, and I started to become addicted to that feeling; definitely feeling excited in a positive way, but with this ambiguity, and this feeling of unpredictability.[28] In a 2016 interview with The Guardian, she said, "I’m a pretty diehard Billy Joel fan, which my parents raised me to believe was normal but friends have since told me is unfortunate."[30]

Discography

Albums

Title!scope="col"
Details
Katie Gately
  • Released: September 2013[31]
  • Label: Public Information
  • Format: Vinyl, digital
Color
  • Released: October 2016[32]
  • Label: Tri Angle
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Loom
  • Released: February 2020[33]
  • Label: Houndstooth
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Fawn / Brute
  • Released: March 2023
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital

Singles

Title!scope="col"
Details
"Waltz"
  • Released: January 2020[34]
  • Label: Houndstooth
  • Format: Digital
"Bracer"
  • Released: November 2019[35]
  • Label: Houndstooth
  • Format: Digital
"Pivot"
  • Released: October 2014
  • Label: Fat Cat
  • Format: Vinyl
"Far"
  • Released: May 2014[36]
  • Label: FET Press
  • Format: Vinyl
"Last Day"
  • Released: July 2013[37]
  • Label: Public Information UK
"Pipes"
  • Released: October 2013[38]
  • Label: Blue Tapes
  • Format: Cassette

Remixes

Title!scope="col"
ArtistDetails
"Siphon" (Katie Gately Remix)Zola Jesus
"Immersion" (Katie Gately Remix)Tangents
"Family" (Katie Gately Remix)Bjork

Productions

Recording!scope="col"
Co-ProducerSongsDetails
Soilserpentwithfeet
  • "Whisper"
  • "Slow Syrup"
  • "Bless Ur Heart"
  • "Cherubim"
  • "Mourning Song"

Compositions

Other collaborations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Field Recording: Hunting and Gathering with Katie Gately. www.shure.com.
  2. Web site: Rewire | International festival for adventurous music. Rewire. Festival. www.rewirefestival.nl.
  3. Web site: Katie Gately is making maximalist pop using everyday objects. Loud And Quiet.
  4. Web site: Katie Gately // Interview | LONDON IN STEREO . 25 February 2020 .
  5. Web site: Björk Shares Part 1 of Vulnicura Remixes. Molly. Beauchemin. Pitchfork. 9 June 2015 .
  6. Web site: Zola Jesus announces new album 'Okovi: Additions' | News. diymag.com. 22 February 2018 .
  7. Web site: Soil – serpentwithfeet | Credits | AllMusic. www.allmusic.com.
  8. News: Katie Gately: Fawn/Brute review – beguilingly disordered pop. The Guardian. 31 March 2023 . Monroe . Jazz .
  9. Web site: "I started to feel like a cave dweller": L.A. sound editor Katie Gately introduces her debut EP of "scary, mechanical worlds". August 23, 2013.
  10. News: Maker . Monet . Guest Mix: Katie Gately – [Untitled] ]. 2 June 2021 . . October 30, 2014.
  11. News: Katie Gately – "Bracer" . 30 May 2021 . . November 6, 2019.
  12. Web site: Katie Gately: Color. Pitchfork.
  13. News: Neibergall . Will . Katie Gately Color . 2 June 2021 . Tiny Mix Tapes.
  14. News: Lobenfeld . Claire . Katie Gately Color . 2 June 2021 . . October 20, 2016.
  15. Web site: Katie Gately samples screaming peacocks and earthquakes on elegiac Houndstooth debut Loom. November 8, 2019.
  16. Web site: Loom, by Katie Gately. Katie Gately.
  17. Web site: Loom. www.fabriclondon.com.
  18. News: Beaumont-Thomas . Ben . Katie Gately: Loom review – nightmarish orchestrated despair . 30 May 2021 . The Guardian . February 14, 2020.
  19. News: Reynaldo . Shawn . Katie Gately Loom . 30 May 2021 . . February 14, 2020.
  20. News: Freedman . Max . Katie Gately Finds a Novel Approach to Documenting Grief . 30 May 2021 . . February 13, 2020.
  21. News: Bočev . Danijela . Katie Gately Loom . 2 June 2021 . The Quietus . March 6, 2020.
  22. News: Jenkins . Dafydd . Katie Gately Loom . 2 June 2021 . . February 10, 2020.
  23. News: Devlin . Ben . Katie Gately – Loom . 2 June 2021 . . February 10, 2020.
  24. News: Sacher . Andrew . Notable Releases of the Week (2/14) . . February 14, 2020.
  25. Web site: The Music 2020 Writers' Poll: Christopher James.
  26. Web site: Music Staff Tell Us Their Top 10s of 2020.
  27. News: 21 December 2020. Best albums of 2020 in a mixed year for pop. Financial Times. Hunter-Tilney. Ludovic.
  28. Web site: The Quietus | Features | Escape Velocity | Out-Of-Body Music: An Interview With Katie Gately. The Quietus.
  29. News: Doran . John . Bountiful Summer: Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far 2014 . 3 June 2021 . The Quietus . July 18, 2014.
  30. News: Hutchinson . Kate . Katie Gately: 'I'm a pretty diehard Billy Joel fan' . 30 May 2021 . The Guardian . September 2, 2016.
  31. Web site: Review: Katie Gately – Katie Gately. 2020-07-22. Resident Advisor.
  32. Web site: Katie Gately: Color. 2020-07-22. Pitchfork. en.
  33. Web site: Katie Gately's second album, Loom, is dedicated to her late mother. 2020-07-22. Resident Advisor.
  34. Web site: The Quietus News Katie Gately Shares New Track, 'Waltz'. 2020-07-22. The Quietus. en-us.
  35. Web site: Orl. Nicola. ino. 2019-11-18. [Video]

    Katie Gately – "Bracer"]

    . 2020-07-22. SonOfMarketing. en-US.
  36. Web site: The Quietus News Katie Gately: New Lathe & Pipes Reissue. 2020-07-22. The Quietus. en-us.
  37. Web site: 2013-07-19. Katie Gately "Last Day"*Public Information*. 2020-07-22. XLR8R. en-US.
  38. Web site: Tapes. Blue. blue eight: Katie Gately. 2020-07-22. Blue Tapes. en.
  39. Web site: Gately. Katie. work. 2020-07-22. Katie Gately. en-US.
  40. Web site: The Quietus News LISTEN: New Katie Gately Remix. 2020-07-22. The Quietus. en-us.
  41. Web site: 2013-12-05. Passer Passer. 2020-07-22. Show Me The Animation. en-GB.
  42. Web site: Gately. Katie. Sound Design. 2020-07-22. Katie Gately. en-US.
  43. Web site: Seattle Phonographers Union. 2020-07-22. www.and-oar.org.

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