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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">KELE</span><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">NEW LP:
</span><i><span lang="PT" style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">TRICK</span></i><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:windowtext">OUT OCTOBER 14<sup>TH</sup> ON LILAC RECORDS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:windowtext">(VIA KOBALT LABEL SERVICES)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="522" height="528" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CFA660.B0863390"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With his sterling first solo effort,
<b><i>The Boxer</i></b>, <b>Kele</b> – best known for his work as the front man of acclaimed rock band
<b>Bloc Party</b> – swapped out the angular guitars of his band and headed straight to the dancefloor, producing a shimmering triumph of an album which melded influences as disparate and surprising as two-step, Italo-house and old school garage with seamless
ease. <b><i>Trick</i></b>, his sophomore record set for release on <b>October 14<sup>th</sup>, 2014</b> on Lilac Records (via
<b>Kobalt Label Services)</b>, sees <b>Kele</b> traveling further down the rabbit hole, but making something darker and more sensual in the process. This time around, proceedings take on a distinctly libidinous, downcast feel, the air thick with possibility
and tension. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJq5V-SRDik"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PRESS HERE</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> for a sneak peek at
<i>Trick’s</i> sonic world, and </span><a href="http://smarturl.it/keletrick"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PRESS HERE</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> to pre-order the album via iTunes.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Honed by periods of weekly DJ sets, not to mention stints producing his own electronic music,
<i>Trick</i> is a different, sleeker beast than <i>The Boxer</i>, with a newfound emphasis on
<b>Kele’s</b> soulful vocals, which grew and changed during the course of recording the album in London and New York. Framing his intensely personal songwriting within the context of dance culture,
<i>Trick</i> is a record which boldly stands at the crossroads of club history, old school soul and modern electronic R&B, with a distinctively British twist.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It is also, undoubtedly, a nocturnal album, one to soundtrack late night assignations and random pairing offs in the wee hours. The slinky opener
<b>“First Impressions”</b> sets the stall perfectly, coupling <b>Kele’s</b> suggestive lyrics like “I can’t fight, it’s just too strong/ I’ve been waiting oh so long” with lysergic syncopations and stuttering, skittering beats. Tracks such as
<b>“Like We Used To,” “Humour Me,” </b>and <b>“Doubt”</b> also explore similar, exotically charged terrain, beckoning the listener to after-hours mischief late into the night, with
<b>Kele’s</b> lucent production and emotive vocals providing potent pulse points of longing and desire.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">However, there is also an unshakeable sense of melancholy and fragility that haunts the record, the realization that these encounters, while thrilling, are ultimately only fleeting. On
<b>“Closer,” </b>a female vocal begs her lover to “go easy on this heart, time to love or fall apart” before resigning herself to the fact that she still needs him close to her in the end. And then the arresting torch song
<b>“Stay the Night” </b>closes everything out gorgeously, with <b>Kele’s</b> world-weary vocals conveying a planet of yearning and vulnerability, as painfully intimate as it is strikingly beautiful. This is dance music alright, but not as you know it; in
<b>Kele’s</b> hands, it becomes something at once powerfully resonant and effortlessly infectious, something which aims for your hips but echoes in the heart long after.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information about Kele, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jen Appel // Crystal Yuen – 212-246-2640<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="mailto:jen@pressherepublicity.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">jen@pressherepublicity.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> //
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Jen Appel</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000">PRESS HERE </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">(New York)</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">138 W. 25<sup>th</sup> St., 9<sup>th</sup> Floor, New York, NY 10001</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">P: (212) 246-2640</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">8105 West Third St.,</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Los
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