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| Studio album by KT Tunstall | ||||
| Released | 9 September 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2015-2016 The Hobby Shop (Los Angeles) The Motherbrain (Los Angeles) Sunset Sound (Los Angeles) |
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| Length | 46:14 | |||
| Label | Caroline, Sony/ATV Music | |||
| Producer | Tony Hoffer | |||
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| Metacritic | 72/100 |
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| Yahoo! | (favourable) |
KIN is the fifth studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. It was released on 9 September 2016 worldwide, following up the folk-toned Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon. It was preceded by the Golden State EP, which included one of the songs from the album, "Evil Eye". The album was produced by Tony Hoffer in a studio in Los Angeles.
It peaked number 7 on the UK and Scottish album charts and number 96 in Switzerland.
Tunstall announced through Facebook in 2015 that a new record would be released in 2016. However, no title track, title album or release date was announced. She also revealed she was working with producer Tony Hoffer during a few chat live with the fans, where she even played live the song "Feel It All" and what was next going to be the promotional single "Evil Eye".
She recorded the album in a studio in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, a place that inspired her a lot of songs, according to her. After her fourth studio album Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon, two years before the album release, Tunstall had considered quitting the album music industry in order to write music for movies. She had entered the Sundance Institute's elite Film Composers Lab in order to give her career another direction. She admitted in an interview with Broadway World: "I stopped. I gave up. I didn't want to do it anymore."
Two years later KIN was born. Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Fitz and the Tantrums, Air, M83 and more), and written and recorded by Tunstall in L.A. "The truth is, I've finally made peace with being a pop songwriter," Tunstall says. "This record was very much embracing my dharma as an artist, which is to write positive songs that have muscle, but also show their vulnerability."
The album is composed of eleven tracks. The lead single off KIN is called "Maybe It's a Good Thing". The song was released on 15 July, and a clip video was released on 1 August. Along with the single release, an acoustic version and as well as a "Bit Funk Remix".
The promotional single "Evil Eye" is also on the album. It was the very first song to be released from the album, but it was initially released as a single from the Golden State EP. Another promotional song was released on 19 August, It Took Me So Long to Get Here, But Here I Am. The song then became a single in November 2016. A music video was broadcast on November 30, 2016.
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