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K.FLAY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
MONO
OUT SEPTEMBER 15TH VIA GIANT MUSIC

LA based two-time GRAMMY Award-nominated multi-platinum songwriter, producer and artist K.Flay returns today with the news of her new full-length studio album MONO, due out September 15th via GIANT Music. Along with today’s news, K.Flay is also dropping ‘Shy’, the second single from the forthcoming LP. 

“In my music, I’m so comfortable being loud and brazen, but in my personal life, I can be a bit shy. Especially when it comes to romantic relationships. I wrote this song after I’d just met my (now) girlfriend. And I sent it to her out of the blue. I guess I only know how to flirt through songs? It worked though.

“Dave Hammer produced this one and he and I have this crazy energy between us. I think when we get together to make music we’re able to disregard the ‘shoulds’ and be purely creative together. A lot of the guitar parts were just freestyle takes, us messing around, but there was a wildness to them that hit us both in the right places.” – K.Flay (on ‘Shy’)

K.Flay co-produced the entire forthcoming MONO LP, her first album for GIANT Music. It has also been co-written with a number of talented names, including Jason Suwito, Jeoff Harris, Dave Hammer, Pink Slip, and Paul Meany, who executive produced the album.

‘Shy’ follows the previously released and lead single ‘Raw Raw’, which has achieved more than 1 million streams. The forthcoming new album delivers honest and thought-provoking songs such as ‘In America’ which tackles guns, drugs, and police violence in an upbeat pop tune. Elsewhere on the 14-track MONO are the industrial electronic rock banger ‘Irish Goodbye’ featuring Pierce The Veil’s Vic Fuentes and ‘Punisher’ – which has K.Flay exploring the demons inside her own psyche.

The album title MONO is a nod to K.Flay’s new sensory reality, having gone completely and suddenly deaf in her right ear at the end of last summer due to a rare condition called SSNHL (Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss) and Labyrinthitis. She was forced to cancel her autumn tour and contemplated not making music anymore. After undergoing a variety of unsuccessful treatments, she embraced the difficult journey ahead, and through the process, discovered a renewed sense of creativity. K.Flay went to work and, in a matter of months, created what she considers to be her most experimental and realized studio album to date.

“I started making this record as a person with two working ears. I finished it with only one and this is also the first record for which, from start to finish, I was sober.

“MONO is about navigating loss, about looking your aloneness in the eye and deciding not to drink or vape or have sex or watch a television show, but to stand there and accept it, to understand its power. There is only one person on this earth with your mind, your creativity, your perspective. You’re a first and last pressing, a 1 of 1, and 1 is a scary number, but life is scary and funny. And sad. And beautiful. I hope this record is a reminder of that, and how we are all experiencing our aloneness together.”
– K.Flay (on MONO)

 UK / EU Tour Dates 

Sept 20 @ Hybrydy in Warsaw, Poland 

Sept 22 @ Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany 

Sept 23 @ Melkweg MAX in Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Sept 25 @ Meetfactory in Prague, Czech Republic 

Sept 26 @ Luxor in Cologne, Germany

Sept 28 @ Flex in Vienna, Austria 

Sept 29 @ Heimathafen in Berlin, Germany 

Oct 2 @ Gorilla in Manchester, UK 

Oct 3 @ Brixton Electric in London, UK