Gately acts as something of a macabre Mother Goose on Fawn / Brute. It’s the sickest (probably only?) breakdown that features demonic barking and a crowd cheering along to its fiery conclusion, pitchforks drawn.
One great entry point for understanding how the album works is “Howl,” a highlight that appears early on in the tracklist, billed as Gately’s own “musical rewrite of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.” The young girl at the center of this story is less naïve and more cunning, as she leads the wolf to a public execution. On her new album Fawn / Brute, she roots those soundscapes in familiar myth: bedtime stories and nursery rhymes that are mischievous and dark-sided. Gately’s electronic music is theatrically expressive her clanging, clamorous soundscapes have always had a flair for the dramatic. The birds peck out the eyes of the stepsisters, the sister locks the witch in the oven to save her brother, the mother decapitates her stepson and cooks him in soup - such grim familial imaginings are fit for songs by Katie Gately, who for nearly a decade has been making delightfully twisted sonic fables of her own.
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