Kittie / Safe
Album: Safe   Collection:Deep Storage 200702
Artist:Kittie   Added:Feb 2003
Label:Artemis Records  

Album Review
Orges Beqiri
Reviewed 2003-04-09
A quick EP with two edits of their latest single, a bunch of live tracks, and some live footage. If you don’t know who Kittie are, don’t worry; you’re not missing much. In case you’re interested, they’re four girls from Canada (except that one of the guitarists left, and some dude named Jeff Philips is their touring/session guitarist now). They play a fairly decent mix of death metal and nu-metal. Nothing extraordinary, but a few cool riffs here and there, and the clean vocals are a nice plus whenever they’re used. The re-mixed track, even though it’s done by Sascha of KMFDM, sucks balls. I hate metal bands who think it’s cool to have techno remixes of their metal songs. If I wanted to listen to techno, I’d listen to techno. And it’s not even a fucking remix, per se. It’s just the song with some drum track looped over it. Sounds dumb. The radio edit is better. The live tracks blend right into one-another for the most part, without anything to set one apart from the rest. The live footage is sub-bootleg quality, but has good sound. I dunno what to say, this is just not good. I wish I liked it cuz that bassist chick is fucking hot (and she does this thing on stage where she gyrates her hips a-la Steve Buscemi in the prison scene in Airheads <<droooooool>>), but I don’t, so I guess that’s one less fanboy/groupie for them. I don’t know if it’s worth adding, but there are a few cool moments on here which show promise, so we might want to risk being on the forefront of radio and help this band make it big and realize their lifelong dreams of rockstardom and... nah.

Recommended Tracks:
2) Cool song, some nice clean vocals showing that Morgan can sing. Neat piano use.
4) Cool riffs, powerful drums, and the vocals are cool, reminiscent, a little, of Angela Gossow.
5) Standard death metal with some excellent clean vox. Kind of a mid-tempo song, never really picks up, but chugs along happily enough.
7) FCC in intro, but otherwise good song, neat riffs.

Track Listing
1. Safe   5. Severed
2. Safe   6. What I Always Wanted
3. Live Tracks   7. In Winter
4. No Name   8. Pain