01. Floating Zzzzzzz!
02. Big Fat Liar
03. Tick Can Tock
04. UpSideDown
05. Suffocate		play
06. Lost Baggage
07. The Love Cats
08. You From This Sting
09. Shrinking Violet		play
10. One Fan Talking
11. Mmm of My Humps

Personnel:
Kinny - vocals
Mads Falck Berven - Guitar
Axel Rindle Hestnes - Guitar
Aksel Gaupås Johansen 	- Producer
Jørgen Sandvik 	- Sitar

A classically trained mezzo-soprano, Canadian-born, Norwegian-based vocalist Caitlin Simpson, aka Kinny, has been compared to everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Erykah Badu since straying into jazz-soul territory in the early 2000s. Under the guidance of production trio Souldrop (who contributed to two tracks on 2009 debut Idle Forest of Chit Chat), her second album, Can't Kill a Dame with Soul, shows why her raw emotive tones and edgy stream-of-consciousness delivery have been mentioned in the same breath as such illustrious company. But this is no Winehouse-alike retro affair. The stripped-back acoustic blues of "Lost Baggage" and a percussive cabaret-style reworking of the Cure's vaudeville classic "The Love Cats" may hark back to a bygone era, but elsewhere, Kinny displays a penchant for laid-back East Coast hip-hop and '90s trip-hop, which perhaps explains why she's recently been invited to work with both De La Soul and Massive Attack. Indeed, the majority of its 11 tracks revel in a sense of claustrophobia that is equally compelling and unsettling, whether it's the attitude-laden "Big Fat Liar," a fusion of massive clomping beats and dub bass wobbles suggesting she's not a woman to be messed with; the Björk-esque percussion and atmospheric strings of "Up/Side/Down"; or the haunting soulful closer, "Mmm of My Hums." There are a few lighter touches, such as opener "Floating Zzzzzzz!," a twinkling slice of acid jazz that combines William Orbit-esque bleeps with Middle Eastern loops, the languid hip-hop soul collaboration with Norwegian MC Son of Light ("Tick Can Tock"), and the Latin-tinged R&B of "One Fan Talking," but Can't Kill a Dame with Soul is always more captivating when it's at its most melancholic. Norway might not exactly be known as a hotbed of soul talent, but Kinny could be the artist to put the country on the map. ---Jon O’Brien, allmusic.com

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1 Idle Forest of Chit Chat (feat. Souldrop) 4:09
2 Damn (feat. TM Juke) 3:33
3 2546 Nice! (feat. Unforscene) 3:53
4 Water for Chocolate (feat. Souldrop) 3:45
5 Afro Love Forest (feat. Hint) 4:12
6 Queen of Boredness (feat. Diesler) 3:25
7 Enough Said (feat. Quantic Soul Orchestra) 4:34
8 Back Street Lust (feat. Diesler) 3:37
9 Desire (feat. Nostalgia 77) 4:03
10 Forgetting to Remember (feat. Nostalgia 77) 3:33
11 Petrified Dazed (feat. TM Juke) 4:23 

Kinny - vocals, primary artist
Featuring – Souldrop, TM Juke, Unforscene, Hint, Diesler
Featuring - The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Nostalgia 77
Bass, Guitar – T. Van Der Kolk, F. 'Obeja' Silva, J. Foord, R. Vosloo
Organ [Rhodes] – Frank Montis
Congas, Percussion [Guasa] – F. Colorado
Drums – L. Joseph, The Jack Baker Trio
Guitar – W. Holland, M. Beaney
Guitar, Percussion – B. Lamdin
Alto Saxophone – J. Spall
Saxophone – L. Blanco, M. Bernardis
Trombone – P. Burton
Trumpet – A. Hernandez, F. Sigurta
Horns – The Killer Horns
Performer [All Other Instruments] – A. Cowan

Admittedly, some of the instrumentals on Kinny's debut long-player are a little on the sappy side. Yet, there is something intriguing about this funk/soul diva from Canada with Jamaican, Native Canadian Indian, French and Swedish heritage that cuts through even the glossiest patchwork instrumental. I have never been a big TM Juke fan, and the Souldrop instrumentals aren't anything to write home about. Unforscene, Hint, and Diesler always have their moments, though, and they try their very best here. Most importantly, the Quantic Soul Orchestra and Nostalgia 77 contributions, rich with vibrant organic instrumentation that land their efforts much closer to the true soul of funk, are as great as anything on their respective albums.

No matter who provides the music, the gripping voice of Caitlin "Kinny" Simpson shines on brilliantly. She is the real deal, an Alice Russell or Amy Winehouse type without the attitude. The weaker instrumentals never get in the way, and the good one let her shine in all the ways she should. Remember this woman's name. If you ignore it, it will haunt you. ---Alan Ranta, popmatters.com

Kinny is a classically trained opera singer who now prefers the passion and freedom of jazz, soul and reggae; however what the more formal grounding does for her is to give her the confidence to lead vocally with the minimal amount of instruments backing her dulcet tones. Check out the already familiar 'Forgetting To Remember' with double bass backing and the title track 'Idle Forest of Chit Chat' to realize that you do not need big orchestrations to sound good. Whilst the latter ends with brass it does so in a way that still allows the voice to dominate and Kinny does just that with vocals that soar and interpret the songs with intelligent phrasing and difficult vocal chord changes that appear effortless in execution. This is future soul no more evident than in the variance of styles prevalent in the track 'Water for chocolate,' where again the simple but effective backing allows the sheer quality of the singing to shine. This is a hugely accessible hip album where the redefining of the soul genre deserves the same sort of acclaim that came to a certain Ms Winehouse. Make no mistake, Kinny rules and long may it continue! ---soultracks.com

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