Kacy Hill Releases New Album ‘BUG’; North American Tour On Sale Now
May 3, 2024 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
Kacy Hill has been busy planting and growing and is finally ready to invite the world into her garden to reap what she’s sewn. Today, the folk-pop singer-songwriter and sonic gardener releases her highly anticipated album BUG, out now via Nettwerk. Listen HERE.
Accompanied with the album’s release is a new music video for one of the album’s standout tracks, “My Day Off” featuring Nourished By Time that finds Hill at her most organic in a visually surreal take on self-worth, growth, and love through the looking glass. With a vivid visual co-directed by Hill and Sadie Wilking, the song lovingly embraces buttery harmonies, soft piano and lapping beats. Watch HERE.
Filled with confessional ruminations, nectarous vocals, and instrumentals wafting through desert air, BUG is a work of sterling grandeur that presents Hill weaving a tapestry of earthy folk, dream-pop, and spacious Americana — orbiting between the themes of angst and the clarity of confidence patiently waiting on the other side of it. Recently featured on Pitchfork’s 50 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2024 list, BUG presents life’s ups, downs, and in-betweens as moments of honesty trapped in sonic amber. From the splendorous pop-infused moments of “You Know I Love You Still” and honeyed confessions of love’s impasses on “Listen To You” and “Frog Rinse” to the sprawling moments of observation on humanity with “No One” (all co-produced by Bartees Strange), Hill dips her spoon into life’s honey jar and licks it clean. The album features additional production from Sega Bodega and Jim-E Stack, as well as features from Nourished By Time and Donna Missal.
Hill shares, “BUG was made over the course of two years and became an outlet to say what I had been silently feeling in my relationship and life as a whole. Making this album marked a distinct change in my mindset as I shifted away from specific expectations, and instead focused on the curiosity and joy I felt while making music.”
Aside from early nods on the new music by icons like Lana Del Rey and Lorde, Hill’s new era of music has already been highlighted by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, COLORS, Perfectly Imperfect, Ones To Watch, and Nylon as one of 2024 Most Anticipated Albums. BUG is the latest addition to Hill’s immaculate discography that includes 2017’s Like a Woman, 2020’s Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again, and 2021’s Simple, Sweet, and Smiling. BUG marks a rebirth of sorts for Hill as she emerges from a new sonic cocoon. After touring with Coldplay, Conan Grey, and Suki Waterhouse and collaborating with industry giants like Bon Iver, Travis Scott, Kid Cudi, and Helado Negro, Hill infuses this new era of her music with the experience of an industry vet but with the fresh perspective of a newly opened bud in the garden of stardom.
Hill has been teasing new music with her live Garden Sessions, where she premiered stripped back takes on “Listen To You” and “Frog Rinse” – watch HERE. Hill heads out on a North American headlining tour this spring, kicking off the live run in Washington DC on May 29th, hitting New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more – full list of dates below. Tickets on sale now at kacyhill.com and more to come!
LISTEN TO BUG LP
https://kacyhill.ffm.to/bug.OYD
WATCH “MY DAY OFF (FT. NOURISHED BY TIME)”
https://kacyhill.ffm.to/bug.OYD
BUG TRACKLIST
1. No One
2. You Know I Love You Still
3. Damn
4. Listen To You
5. Frog Rinse
6. My Day Off (ft. Nourished by Time)
7. Here I Am (ft. Donna Missal)
8. Honey Boba Boy
9. Poquito Mas
10. If I Could Stay
5/29 – Washington D.C. – Songbyrd Music House
5/30 – New York, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
5/31 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
6/02 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
6/05 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
6/08 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
6/09 – San Diego – Casbah
6/11 – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop (Popscene)
6/14 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
6/15 – Portland, OR – Holocene
6/16 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
