For these merch items and more, visit one of the shop links below. Music superstar and chef, Kelis Rogers, is about to drop her new album 'Food' and it's time to celebrate by hosting a dinner party for her inner circle. Printed on ultra-soft Unisex T-shirt MADE OF 100 ORGANIC RING-SPUN COMBED COTTON. Back in 2011, without a label to provide necessary funding, Kelis (a recent culinary school graduate) offered to pay producers with home-cooked meals at her in-home studio. Kelis 2020 branding on the front and EU 2020 tour dates on the back. Read more: Kelis "Jerk Ribs" Video: Watch | . The upcoming album has been given the working title of 'FOOD,' which has been a running theme for the singer. With Food, her first album in four years (out April 22 on Ninja Tune Records), Kelis celebrates two more reinventions. But after spending several years training as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu, she’s marrying her two loves - music and food - on a new album called (what else?) Food.'. The latter has only improved with time and experience, and the album candidly. Jerk Ribs Video from Kelis album Food - released 21 April 2014 on Ninja Tune.Available for purchase here: Buy at iTunes. Littered with transcendent, Spector-esque lift, warm bottom ends and vast depth, the music is the perfect backdrop for Kelis’ unique voice. As Pharrell’s muse, she made strange, funky pop songs like “Milkshake” that took over American radio she was more forceful still with clanging, dissonant R&B tracks like “Bossy” then, she transformed into a spaced-out electrohouse diva on her last album, 2010?s Flesh Tone, which saw her topping the dance charts and touring with Swedish pop pixie Robyn. Food is a startling combination of Kelis’ most frank and vulnerable vocals to date, and Siteks inimitable sonic imprint. For several years this was her official website.Content is from the site's 2013 - 2014 archived pages as well as. 'Kelis has gone through a few incarnations over the course of her 15-year career. Kelis Rogers, better known as Kelis, is an American singer, songwriter and chef.
The album is largely produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the radio fame. It includes the first single "Jerk Ribs". However, ‘Dreamer’’s success does also highlight ‘Food’’s greatest weakness: an occasional tendency towards blandness, particularly among the more upbeat numbers, with ‘Breakfast’’s relentless positivity too close to Coke-ad territory for comfort.īut in a year where erstwhile Kelis collaborator Pharrell Williams (who produced her first two albums with his Neptunes production partner Chad Hugo) has taken his own brand of soul homage to global success, Kelis’s dig into the genre seems to be another timely move.Īnd while ‘Food’ may be more home-cooked comforts than Blumenthal experimentation, at its best it’s a fulfilling portion.Kelis returns with her 6th studio album "FOOD" released 21st April 2014. Its epically woozy ‘5 AM’ feel – built on Sitek’s wall-of-sound string rush – suggests a follow-up to ‘Suspended’, the psychedelic peak of Kelis’s 1999 debut ‘Kaleidoscope’. The latter, which closes the album, is particularly wild-eyed and stirring. This is especially true on the two standout ballads ‘Floyd’ and ‘Dreamer’, which play heart-on-sleeve vocals against rousing string arrangements that will send your neck hairs into orbit. More importantly, ‘Food’ contains enough songwriting nous, raw vocal dexterity and striking instrumental arrangement to make such retro concerns largely a non-issue. While ‘Food’’s default sound of scratch guitar, tight basslines and resplendent horns evokes soul’s golden age (or fin-de-siècle Macy Gray, for those being less charitable), there are enough details here – the sub-bass rumbling on ‘Forever Be’ or the snappy hip-hop drums on ‘Dreamer’ – to mark this out as a sufficiently modern record. Two months later we have ‘Food’, Kelis’s sixth studio album, recorded in Sitek’s LA home between bouts of inspirational home cooking, with the singer trying out melodies while working in the kitchen as Sitek experimented on the piano in the lounge. It was a decent song, certainly, but didn’t we expect more from Kelis and producer du jour Dave Sitek? The New York-born singer was working with The Neptunes back in 1998 when they were up-and-coming producers, rather than ubiquitous hitmakers, and was migrating towards Euro house in 2010 when such influences were still frowned upon among the urban elite.Īll of which made her recent single ‘Jerk Ribs’ something of a surprise, evoking as it did the bump and shuffle of ’60s soul rather than the bleeding-edge sound of the future. Kelis has always been far ahead of the R&B pack.