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Dublin-based Kynsy recently released her brand new EP Something To Do With Love. The five-track EP features the recently released tracks “New Year”, “Point of You'' and “Love of Your Life”. To mark the announcement Kynsy shares the video for “Simple Life”, a song tackling the confusion of love and the nagging second thoughts that come with the throes of such an intense relationship with woozy percussion and a circling hook to get you dancing as a means to shake it all loose.
On the video Kynsy says, “I really like keeping my videos fun. Simple Life is directed by Eilís Doherty and together we had a great time concocting a nightmare scenario for Elle the star of the video. She's on a night out, she wakes up after a car crash with some curry chips on her lap and she's stabbed a taxi driver
in the neck. Is she dreaming, or dead and in purgatory or hell? Do they eat curry chips there? Who knows?”
The world of Kynsy is a colourful, weird place of harsh edges and soft storytelling, where unwavering authenticity reigns king and the building blocks are constantly shapeshifting around you. It is the world constructed by 24-year-old Ciara Lindsey, who is still constructing herself, throwing love songs and confrontational battlecries at the wall to see what sticks.
It began with the rising Dubliner’s debut EP Things That Don’t Exist released last year, a few months after she featured in the NME 100 who praised the EP as, “a masterclass of channeling angst into disarming indie for a new generation.” Her music also garnered praise from The Irish Times, The Quietus, DIY and Clash. BBC Radio 1 proved to be equally supportive with Jack Saunders, Annie Mac and Gemma Bradley all championing her and she was chosen as a BBC Introducing artist for Radio 1’s Big Weekend. But that four-track release still wasn’t enough – Kynsy is an endlessly prolific songwriter. Her mind has been thrumming with tunes for the last five years, and at this point she’s just itching to get them out.
Freedom has always been the most important thing, and with a forthcoming second EP you sense Kynsy fully embracing the confidence that comes with her ever-growing knowledge as a songwriter, producer and performer, presenting a boisterous collection of tracks without being constrained by genre, format, theme, or, well, anyone but herself. The new songs build on the swaggering wit of the first EP, the observational frustration with modern living now shapeshifting into something broader, grander, even stronger.
The new EP was co-produced with Alt-J regular Charlie Andrew, who worked with Kynsy in Dalston’s Old Workshop, where Alt-J recorded so much of the weird, wondrous music which changed everything for them. “Every song I gave to Charlie, he was like, ‘How can we make this weirder?’” Kynsy says of their collaboration, something of a breath of fresh air to have her bedroom demos embraced, celebrated, re-amped and reinvigorated as opposed to disregarded as child’s play.
The thing about Kynsy, at this stage, is that it is all about playing. You couldn’t tell, by the complex, sharp sounds borne from a young, frantic mind now finally bursting to get out. But that’s what makes it such a privilege to be invited into this world for a minute: to walk around and look at the building blocks, the splashes of colour, the hints of past lives and learned mistakes, and the promise of a deliciously unpredictable future to come.
“Wit and heartbreak in Irish shredder’s indie-pop… The 23-year-old musician is well on her way, making genre-fluid bedroom pop to remind you of all your favourite hitmakers.” - NME
"The three preview tracks to date - New Year, Point of You, and Love of Your Life - demonstrate the thrilling depth and complexity of her music. A real find” - Sunday Times Culture
“The Irish newcomer’s second EP is a boisterous collection of tracks, vivid and playful - an intoxicating glimpse into her artistic vision.” - DIY ????
“Although the debut EP from 23-year-old Ciara Lindsey only features four tracks, there's more dextrous experimentation than a lot of young artists will achieve for years.” - The Quietus
"Few make music as raw and as breathtaking as Kynsy.” - Clash
“One of the latest talents to emerge is Kynsy, and on her new track she bleeds in a little wild west goth strut and restless unpredictability, with jagged riffs shooting out in strange directions...It’s indie rock that blends hyperactive energy with neo-noir sense of style.” - The Line of Best Fit
"Ciara Lindsey AKA Kynsy just keeps knocking out the shiny indie pop jams these days.” - Nialler9
