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KAMAL.
shares his second single
of the year,
the blissful
‘BETTER’
out now via Neighbourhood Recordings / Virgin Music Australia
Listen/watch here
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An inimitable singer and songwriter on a rapid trajectory, the 19-year-old hails from Harlesden; but his music is traveling far beyond his hometown. After releasing his highly anticipated debut EP war outside at the end of last year, (a project that helped to amass an incredible 114 million streams for the young creative), Kamal. has been back in the studio – bolstering an already impressive catalogue of music.
These new offerings seamlessly follow in the footsteps of previous singles, such as the ethereal ‘lose‘, fan favourite ‘homebody‘, and even the Top-40 single ‘Mercury‘, a collaboration with Brit Award winning rapper Dave.
His lyrical content spans romantic relationships, the seclusion of your own mind, the repetitive, the mundane, and even derealisation and anxiety. This observational state of feeling detached and alien is one that can be heard across Kamal.’s work; honey-tinged vocals offered on a sharp knife of realism and raw honesty.
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Long-term fans will recall the aforementioned ‘homebody‘, which was written during Kamal.’s winter holiday and discussed isolation and seclusion; an all too familiar emotion in the consequential global lockdown that ensued in March 2020. His subsequent single ‘blue‘ saw similar global-reaching success, Billie Eilish placed it at the number 1 spot during her takeover of Spotify’s Lorem playlist.
In the past, Kamal. honed an impressive balance between schoolwork and making music; but now having graduated from school for good, he is able to place full focus on recording and is gearing towards a year of new releases. Kamal. was always destined to be a musician. A skilled pianist, his early influences were found in the likes of Maxwell, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and Bill Withers. Formulating his own sound, he first began to compose tracks on his ukulele and in 2019, uploaded his first recorded song –‘smilingdownthephone‘ on SoundCloud. Since then, he hasn’t looked back.
With co-signs from the likes of NME, British GQ, British Vogue, i-D, Dazed and more, Kamal. is on a rapidly rising and critically acclaimed trajectory. The Ivor Novello-award nominated multi-instrumentalist also recently appeared in Converse’s #createnext campaign.
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Kamal. – ‘better’
single out now
via Neighbourhood Recordings / Virgin Music Australia
Stream / buy here
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