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 Kate EarlFate Is the Hunter Release Date 2005 05 10 Label Record Collection Music Rating:  Kate Earl's debut has an understated glow about it, a quiet allure that comes from a bright, almost naïvely honest young singer working with a crew of sure-handed musicians. Earl migrated to Los Angeles from Chugiak, AK. That's near Anchorage. But she sounds at home in front of a California band that includes (at various points) Mitchell Froom, Michael Penn, Wendy Melvoin, members of Incubus, Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks), and sound artist/pedal steel manipulator Chas Smith. Earl's vocals are throaty, expressive, and pristinely clear. She's a less strident Joss Stone over the winking strings of &"Silence," but delicate and half-asleep on &"Free," where Scher's pedal steel and the pump organ of Patrick Warren add hundreds of style points. Earl's songwriting on Fate Is the Hunter has some gravity -- she's a girl just trying to make her way in the world, or a lover, or lost thoughts and memories where darkness whispers amidst the happiness. But it's really her unadorned vocal over Hunter's finely rendered instrumentation that makes the record shimmer like an L.A. sunset. &"Cry Sometimes" is a gorgeous cut, a slice of soft rock that goes back to Carly Simon or Rickie Lee Jones, and &"Sweet Sixteen" is breezy with brushed acoustic strings and a great, vocal saxophone in a supporting role. &"When You're Older" feels like the single -- it could be Tegan & Sara. That's not wrong, but it doesn't quite fit with tracks like the ambitious, steadily building &"Anything" or the touching Alaska diary &"Come This Far." That's OK. For a debut, Fate Is the Hunter hits its marks wonderfully, offering grace, gravity, simplicity, and well-played, well-placed instrumentation. Johnny Loftus, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Someone to Love | Earl | 3:24 |
| 2 | When You're Older | Berg, Earl | 4:35 |
| 3 | Officer | Earl | 4:42 |
| 4 | Silence | Berg, Earl | 3:27 |
| 5 | Cry Sometimes | Thiele, Earl | 4:14 |
| 6 | Anything | Earl | 3:42 |
| 7 | Free | Earl | 4:01 |
| 8 | Come This Far | Berg, Earl | 3:45 |
| 9 | Sweet Sixteen | Earl | 3:20 |
| 10 | Hero | Bearwald, Earl | 4:19 |
| 11 | [Untitled Hidden Track] | Earl | 3:34 |
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