Kate Nash will release 9 Sad Symphonies, her fifth album and first in five years, on June 21 via Kill Rock Stars. It’s her first for the label and finds her taking cues from old Hollywood and musicals, and was inspired in part from working with Danish producer Frederick Thaae on Off-Broadway production Only Gold; he also produced the album.
The first single is “Millions of Heartbeats,” a swirling ballad that comes with a video that also owes a little to classic Hollywood musicals. “‘Millions of Heartbeats’ is a song about losing your spark,” Kate explains. “It can be difficult to find hope in a world that’s constantly bombarding you with bad news, chaos and capitalism. It’s scary when you lose that spark and can’t lift yourself out of a pit. It can feel like that light you once had might never come back. The button to the song is that there’s millions of heartbeats on this planet and that’s the reason we have to try. All we have right now is earth and each other. And that’s actually a lot. So just keep trying.”
Watch the video below.
9 Sad Symphonies
1. Millions Of Heartbeats
2. Misery
3. Wasteman
4. Abandoned
5. Horsie
6. My Bile
7. These Feelings
8. Space Odyssey 2001
9. Ray
10. Vampyre