Interview with K.Flay
We had the pleasure of interviewing K.Flay over Zoom video!
Alt-rock\u2019s artful enigma K.Flay (the stage name of Kristine Flaherty) hurls fistfulls of theoretical paint at the modern music landscape by announcing her forthcoming EP \u2018Inside Voices\u2019, dropping June 11th via BMG. The GRAMMY-nominated musical changeling throws caution to the wind on the forthcoming collection, instead choosing to scream a primal roar of self-confidence across five tracks of fresh, biting self-expression.
Kicking off this next phase in her already varied & exciting discography is the first single \u201cFour Letter Words\u201d - birthed from a very real moment in her life (cue the first line \u201cI drank a liter of tequila in my bedroom, it\u2019s taking every ounce of power not to text you\u201d), the song kicks off with a chugging guitar before erupting into a cathartic sonic explosion that evolves the manic loneliness felt post-breakup into finding the strength to confidentially say \u201cFUCK YOU\u201d to the one that didn\u2019t doesn\u2019t deserve you.
In a fitting visual accompaniment, the artist rages out in her bedroom while two cartoon characters, IV (representing the 'id') and OV (representing the 'superego') wreak havoc on her psyche.
It\u2019s a shape-shifter of a song that perfectly encapsulates the forthcoming EP\u2019s sonic variety and expression. Throughout the collection, K.Flay offers up a smorgasbord of colorful alternative art-pop -- unexpected, exhilarating, and truly one-of-kind, be it via \u201cDating My Dad\u201d that features Barker on drums and examines how we repeat the same tired behaviors of those who raised us, or via the snarling \u201cTGIF\u201d that asks the listener to rethink society\u2019s tendency to \u201ctune out\u201d the bullshit going on in the world and boasts a heaven-sent solo from Tom Morello. The EP also features the clever and irreverent rap closer \u201cMy Name Isn\u2019t Katherine\u201d (a comical reference to her issue with constantly being misnamed), and \u201cGood Girl\u201d, a co-writing collaboration with Dan Reynolds and an infectious punk-tinged singalong about reaching your breaking point when it comes to politeness and finding the courage to not give a fuck anymore.
The Chicago-born K.Flay\u2019s near-undefinable amalgamation of dark-electro soundscapes, art-pop sensibilities, spitfire rhymes, industrial rock backbone and versatile chameleon-like vocals has led the songwriter/artist/multi-instrumentalist to two GRAMMY nominations (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for \u2018Every Where Is Some Where\u2019, and Best Rock Song for "Blood in the Cut"), tours alongside Grouplove, Imagine Dragons & Thirty Seconds To Mars, and festival spots at ACL Fest, Bonnaroo, Coachella, Treefort, and Riot Fest. She most recently dropped the three-song cover collection \u2018Don\u2019t Judge A Song By Its Cover\u2019 that included off-the-wall remakes of songs by Limp Bizkit, The Offspring & Green Day, and appeared on songs by Arkelles and Jax Anderson.
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