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K Flay announces new album and UK tour dates

By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 2 May 2019

K Flay has announced that she will release her third studio album, ‘Solutions’, in July.

The album, she explains, started as a way to write her way out of a depression that hit after three years of solid work on releases and performing. “When I got home from tour, I was in a dark place”, she says. “Eventually, I made a decision to focus on the things that actually make me happy: walking around my neighbourhood, drawing in notebooks with markers, talking to my mom on the phone. I thought, ‘What did I do as a kid to be happy?'”

“As a child, you don’t have access to alcohol, drugs, sex, caffeine”, she goes on. “I looked back, when I had fun just by making music. I remembered the first time I wrote a song, burned a CD, and played it in my car. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to a religious experience. I reconnected with that spirit and stopped taking shit so seriously”.

“The title ‘Solutions’ came to me really early in the process”, she continues. “The solution to almost every problem is usually really simple. For me, it’s so basic: staying connected to the people I love, taking care of myself the way I’d want my friends to take care of themselves, and doing things I know are going to make me happy – not what social media or strangers or society tells me. So many of my past records were about problems. Right now, I’m in a place where I’m looking for some light. Balance is important. Life doesn’t have to be chaotic in order to be meaningful”.

New single, ‘This Baby Don’t Cry’, is out now. The album is set for release on 12 Jul.

Later in the year, K Flay will be in the UK for a short run of shows. Here are the dates:

18 Oct: Birmingham, Academy 2
19 Oct: Bristol, Thekla
21 Oct: Glasgow, St Luke’s
22 Oct: Manchester, Gorilla
23 Oct: London, Heaven