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Kevin Abstract

Through his tender songs, Kevin Abstract imagines love in all its shifting forms and flavors.

More than a decade after he first began exploring these feelings, the newly solo Kevin navigates the wonder and unease of ends and beginnings with his upcoming rock album Blanket.

While recording the album’s 13 songs—in Spike Jonze’s brother Sam i’s Los Angeles studio and at Rick Rubin’s Malibu studio Shangri-La—Kevin turned to his earliest memories, a time when the future wasn’t real and anything felt possible.

Produced by longtime collaborator Romil Hemnani, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Abraham (Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red), Tyler Johnson (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran), Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), John Carroll Kerby and more, the album swings between crunchy, chanted rock (“The Greys”) and vast R&B like “Voyager.”

“I wanted to make a Sunny Day Real Estate, Nirvana, Modest Mouse type of record,” Kevin says. “But I wanted it to hit like a rap album.” After growing up in Corpus Christi, TX, Kevin’s real ascent began with BROCKHAMPTON who became gods to a sect of rap and indie music fans.

After leaving BROCKHAMPTON , Kevin entered a fog of depression, unsure of his path forward. But at a show in Los Angeles this past September, he felt the grief beginning to lift. Recorded over three months in early 2023, Blanket has the widescreen feel of past BROCKHAMPTON and Kevin Abstract records, but finds Kevin probing life and love with a newfound wonder. Although his sound has evolved considerably, his pursuit of truth through love remains.

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