Alt-pop artist Sarah Kinsley has announced her debut full-length album, Escaper, due out on September 6 via Verve Forecast. It follows a series of EPs she’s released over the past few years, most recently 2023’s Ascension, and she co-produced it with John Congleton. On working with him, she says, “One realization you have eventually as an insular, more introspective person is that there’s a world outside of yourself waiting for you to look into it. I had made every single EP from scratch, in the sweetness of my apartment… This record was meant to be grand and unstoppable. A beginning descent into freefall. Why protect that feeling in solitude? Why not invite another into that journey?”
“I’m just such a sucker for massive, grand songs,” she adds. “I think it’s the classical musician in me who loves symphonies and the magnum opus effect.”
The first single is “Last Time We Never Meet Again,” which you can hear below. “The song is meant to be celebratory,” she says, “but it’s trying to make something that is really sincerely a goodbye —- the closing of all these worlds that you inhabit with the people you love. A celebratory goodbye.”
Sarah will be on tour in North America this fall, starting in Vancouver on September 15 and running through October, with Europe and UK dates to follow in November. Alix Page, Ha Vay, and Linn Koch-Emmery each open select shows, and you can see all dates below.
The NYC show is at Webster Hall on October 16 with Ha Vay. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, June 21 at 10 AM local.
SARAH KINSLEY – ESCAPER TRACKLIST
1. Last Time We Never Meet Again
2. Realms
3. Glint
4. Sublime
5. My Name Is Dancing
6. Beautiful Things
7. Barrel Of Love
8. Matter
9. There Was A Room
10. Knights
11. Starling
12. Escaper
SARAH KINSLEY: 2024 TOUR DATES
Sep 15—Hollywood Theatre—Vancouver, BC
Sep 16—Neumos—Seattle, WA
Sep 17—Polaris Hall—Portland, OR
Sep 19—The Independent—San Francisco, CA
Sep 20—Troubadour—Los Angeles, CA
Sep 21—Troubadour—Los Angeles, CA
Sep 22—Valley Bar—Phoenix, AZ
Sep 25—House of Blues Cambridge Room—Dallas, TX
Sep 26—Antone’s Nightclub—Austin, TX
Sep 29—The Basement East—Nashville, TN
Oct 01—Thalia Hall—Chicago, IL
Oct 02—A&R Music Bar—Columbus, OH
Oct 04—The Loft at Center Stage—Atlanta, GA
Oct 05—Motorco Music Hall—Durham, NC
Oct 06—Union Stage—Washington D.C.
Oct 09—The Great Hall—Toronto, ON
Oct 10—Theatre Fairmount—Montreal, QC
Oct 12—Higher Ground Showcase Lounge—South Burlington, VT
Oct 13—Royale—Boston, MA
Oct 15—The Foundry at The Fillmore—Philadelphia, PA
Oct 16—Webster Hall—New York, NY
Nov 08—Whelan’s—Dublin, Ireland
Nov 10—SWG3—Glasgow, UK
Nov 11—Band On The Wall—Manchester, UK
Nov 13—Thekla—Bristol, UK
Nov 14—Heaven—London, UK
Nov 18—Melkweg—Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 19—CBE—Cologne, Germany
Nov 22—Lido—Berlin, Germany
Nov 23—Cafe v Lese—Prague, Czech Republic
Nov 25—Strom—Munich, Germany
Nov 27—Le Bellevilloise—Paris, France
