K.Flay Releases 'Every Where Is Some Where' Album Today

By: Caryn Robbins Apr. 07, 2017

Rising star K.Flay today released her highly anticipated new album Every Where Is Some Where via Night Street / Interscope Records. Available on all digital platforms from today, her highly anticipated full-length features fan favorites Black Wave, High Enough, Blood In The Cut, plus many additional and previously unheard of tracks certain to make waves upon its release. Get Every Where Is Some Where HERE.

On the album's first official single, "High Enough," K.Flay cleverly explores the power of lucid self-acceptance and delivers one of the album's most blatantly upbeat tracks. Matching her seamless flow with sing-song melody, "High Enough" fuses breezy rhythm and bubbly guitar lines into a hopeful meditation on keeping clear-headed.

Talking about the single, K.Flay declares "there are so many songs out there about getting fed up," she says of the song's inspiration. "I think a part of me was asking the question: 'What if I'm already high enough? What if I don't need anything but what I've got?' There are many moments in my life-whether it's because of a person or a place-that I don't want to feel altered or high or buzzed. I just want to feel exactly what I'm feeling."

Kaleidoscopic in mood, Every Where Is Some Where also offers somber moments like "Mean It"-a stunningly vulnerable track built around K.Flay's outpourings on love and family and lineage. Laced with subtle wisdom ("Remember what you love/So that when the world gets painful/You become your own god"), the starkly arranged song emerged from an especially cathartic writing session for Flaherty. "I wrote 'Mean It' in my bedroom in L.A., pretty late at night...the song just came pouring out," she recalls. "I remember I was crying while I wrote it, which is pretty unusual for me." "It's Just a Lot," meanwhile, came to life while Flaherty was "thinking about the world and how it's so big and beautiful and sad," giving way to a blissfully up-tempo but sweetly melancholic pop gem.

On "The President Has a Sex Tape," K.Flay's measured vocal delivery and throbbing bassline brilliantly clash with her barbed lyrics about the state of the world. "Nothing feels sacred anymore-our highest elected official is a reality television star who is incompetent and openly hateful," says Flaherty. "The song started out as a lament, but turned into a rallying cry as we finished it. I hope it can be a weird little anthem for people feeling disillusioned or alienated."

Since making her debut in 2010, K.Flay has spun fearlessly detailed lyrics that show the bright and dark of the world in her head. For her second full-length Every Where Is Some Where, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter delved deeper into introspection while adding an element of political commentary. The result is her most deliberate and dynamic work yet, a thrillingly vital album that channels the frenzy and anxieties of today's world but ultimately exhilarates. According to Flaherty, "each song on the record is about creating a different kind of meaning out of a different kind of something," she explains. "Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere."

Serving as the follow up to her 2016 EP Crush Me-whose lead single "Blood in the Cut" hit the top 5 on Modern Rock radio-Every Where Is Some Where amps up its defiant spirit with a densely textured yet gritty sound. Watch the edgy TJ Andrade-directed video for "Blood In The Cut" HERE.

K.Flay is the first signing to Interscope imprint Night Street Records, founded by her friend and collaborator, Imagine Dragons' front man Dan Reynolds. Every Where Is Some Where features production from some of pop music's heaviest hitters, including Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Skylar Grey, Twenty One Pilots) and Tommy English (BØRNS, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Ladyhawke), amping up the album's defiant spirit with a densely textured yet gritty sound. "After Life as a Dog I was listening to so much late-'90s/early-'00s rock," says K.Flay, referring to her 2014 full-length debut. "I was absorbing the energy of people like Karen O, Shirley Manson, and Emily Haines and feeling totally inspired by it, so there's lots more live guitar, bass, and drums on this record." The new record also deftly infuses that same raw intensity she's revealed in touring with such artists as Passion Pit, Icona Pop, Awolnation, and Theophilus London.

The new album release follows a busy few months on the road for K.Flay (real name Kristine Flaherty), including a SOLD OUT U.S. headlining tour, a coveted spot opening for indie rock band Mother Motheron their jaunt across Canada and a SOLD OUT show at LA's El Rey Theater this past week. With an Australian tour on the horizon, plus appearances announced at Firefly Festival (Tickets), Forecastle Festival (Tickets) and Sloss Music & Arts Festival (Tickets) and just announced Outside Lands Festival (Tickets) in San Francisco, 2017 is shaping up to be a big one for K.Flay. For all tour dates and ticket info, please visit www.kflay.com

WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES
April 11 - Hollywood, CA - Amoeba Records In Store Signing - 6PM
Apr 21 - Honolulu, HI - The Republik
Apr 28 - Oakbank, Aus - Groovin The Moo
Apr 29 - Maitland, Aus - Groovin The Moo
Apr 30 - Townsville, Aus - Groovin The Moo
May 2 - Brisbane, Aus - Woolly Mammoth
May 4 - Melbourne, Aus - Howler
May 6 - Bendigo, Aus - Groovin The Moo
May 7 - Canberra, Aus - Groovin The Moo
May 10 - Sydney, Aus - Oxford Art Factory
May 11 - Perth, Aus - Rosemount Hotel
May 13 - Bunbury, Aus - Groovin The Moo
May 17 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
May 20 - Chicago, IL - WKQX PIQNIQ
May 28 - Pompano Beach, FL - 104.3 The Shark Undertow Jam
May 29 - Jacksonville, FL - X102.9 Rock On The River
Sept 23 - Ithaca, NY - Cayuga Sound
Jun 15-18 - Dover, DE - Firefly Festival
Jun 22 - Berlin, DE - Lido
Jun 23-25 - Scheessel, DE - Hurricane Festival
Jun 23-25 - Neuhausen ob Eck, DE - Southside Festival
Jun 28 - London, UK - Camden Assembly
Jul 14-16 - Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
Jul 15-16 - Birmingham, AL - Sloss Music & Arts Festival
Aug 11-13 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Festival

Track List:
1. Dreamers
2. Giver
3. Blood In The Cut
4. Champagne
5. High Enough
6. Black Wave
7. Mean It
8. Hollywood Forever
9. The President Has A Sex Tape
10. It's Just A Lot
11. You Felt Right
12. Slow March

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