Kendra Morris “I Am What I’m Waiting For” Transparent Blue/White Swirl or Black LP (2023)

Details: Kendra Morris, “I Am What I’m Waiting For,” Transparent Blue/White Swirl or Black LP (2023, Colemine Records). Transparent Blue with White Swirl or Black LP variants. New stock, sealed. Gatefold design.

Description: "There’s something undeniably out-of-time about both Kendra Morris and her indelibly cool new album I Am What I’m Waiting For (Karma Chief Records). It combines rough-hewn powerhouse vocals with arrangements that betray both an extensive record collection and a whimsical instinct for joyous noises — think Dusty Springfield fronting Spoon circa Kill The Moonlight or a 60s girl group creative directed by Nick Lowe and PeeWee Herman. It’s vibrant and varied and packed with personality.

“How do you put yourself into a record? Torbitt and I wanted to make it feel like you cracked open the ooze in my head,” Morris says, referring to her co-writer and producer Torbitt Schwartz AKA Little Shalimar (Run The Jewels). Morris is an accomplished visual artist and stop-motion animator, so it’s appropriate that I Am What I’m Waiting For takes a collagist approach, mischievously recombining all sorts of rock and roll ingredients — the sass and swagger of Ronnie Spector, the more acid-fried corners of the Nuggets compilations, post-modern interpolations of mid-century exotica music, the cracking snares and sugary urbanity of ESG — while offering moments of vulnerable insight from a life spent in pursuit of creativity..."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING:

01. When I Go To Space
02. Anywhere
03. What Are You Waiting For
04. Dominoes
05. The Door
06. All Your Jokes
07. Special
08. Still Spinning
09. Nightsnake
10. Birthday Song
11. One Last Joyride