Sarah Kinsley Announces Debut Album, ‘Escaper’
Sarah Kinsley is excited to announce the release of her debut album, Escaper, for 6th September 2024 via Verve Forecast/Decca. To coincide with the announcement, Kinsley unveils a first taste of the new music with the album opener, “Last Time We Never Meet Again”.
Kinsley collaborated with, and co-produced, the album alongside Grammy-award winning producer John Congleton (Angel Olsen, St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten). The record heralds the first time Kinsley has collaborated in the studio with another producer, having self-produced her previous EP releases to date.
“One realization you have eventually as an insular, more introspective person is that there’s a world outside of yourself waiting for you to look into it. I had made every single EP from scratch, in the sweetness of my apartment… This record was meant to be grand and unstoppable. A beginning descent into freefall. Why protect that feeling in solitude? Why not invite another into that journey?” she details of working with Congleton.
Born in California, and raised in Connecticut before moving to Singapore with her family during middle school and returning to New York for Columbia University, this perfectly unusual leftfield pop singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (Sarah plays the piano, synth, guitar, ondes Martenot, glass bowls, and some violin on the record too) studied music at University, and was creating much positive noise and conversation online long before she had signed a record deal. Everything she was putting out was home-spun; self-produced, self-written and self-performed. Sarah made a habit of documenting her process, and it was one such video, uploaded in response to the misconception that “Women don’t produce music” that documented Sarah recording the sounds of tapping on a desk, opening a door, switching on a light, thumping on a mattress and flicking a wine glass, splicing them all together and forming the introduction to a prior EP track, Over + Under, that captured the imagination of a young audience who have been feverishly following her every move since.
Earlier this year, Kinsley opened for Mitski in the US, following support slots with the likes of Weyes Blood and Sylvan Esso.
In support of the record’s release, Kinsley and her band will embark on a huge 31-date headline tour across North America, the UK/Ireland and Europe, calling at London’s Heaven on 14th November alongside dates in Dublin, Bristol, Glasgow, and Manchester. Tickets for Manchester, Bristol and London are available from Friday 21 June at 10am here. For tickets and information on all tour dates, please visit www.sarahkinsleymusic.co.uk.
Photo Credit: Dillon Matthew
ESCAPER TRACKLISTING: Last Time We Never Meet Again / Realms / Glint / Sublime / My Name Is Dancing / Beautiful Things / Barrel Of Love / Matter / There Was A Room / Knights / Starling / Escaper
Sarah Kinsley Live UK & EU:
8th November - Whelan’s, Dublin
10th November – SWG3, Glasgow
11th November - Band On The Wall, Manchester
13th November - Thekla, Bristol
14th November - Heaven, London
18th November - Melkweg, Amsterdam
19th November - CBE, Cologne
22nd November - Lido, Berlin
23rd November – Café v Lese, Prague
25th November - Strom, Munich
27th November - Le Bellevilloise, Paris
