Katy Kirby shares new single ‘Hand To Hand’
As she approaches the release of her new album, Blue Raspberry, the Tennessee-based indie star Katy Kirby has offered an exciting preview, ‘Hand To Hand’.
The mellow, brooding single, with Kirby’s demure, fragile vocals adorning a shimmering synth composition. The track is accompanied by a lyric video that sees Kirby making a wedding makeup tutorial in her bathroom. Following the music’s intensity, things gradually take on a sinister tone.
“I wrote this at a moment I was witnessing the gory breakdown of several relationships/couples all at the same time,” Kirby says of the new single. “I don’t really want to invoke the word ‘heteropessimism’ here, but I guess it’s about something like it or just about commitment in general. It all seems like such an incredibly risky idea?”
“I’m feeling less dark about it these days, but I also fell in love with someone recently, so have tried to think about it less,” she added.
Although she was born in Texas, Kirby began work on Blue Raspberry after a move to Nashville, Tennessee. In press materials, she discussed the album’s title track as its earliest creation.
“‘Blue Raspberry’ is the oldest song on the record. I began to write it a month or so before I realised I think I’m queer,” she explains.
Discussing the album as a whole, Kirby reveals that, alongside her producers, Alberto Sewald and Logan Chun, she considered Andy Shauf’s The Party and Lomelda’s Hannah as central sources of inspiration for the new project.
Listen to Katy Kirby’s new single, ‘Hand To Hand’, below. The new album, Blue Raspberry, arrives on January 26th.
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