Okay Kaya – the project of Norwegian-born, New York-based Kaya Wilkins – shares the new single/video, “Psych Ward,” from Watch This Liquid Pour Itself, her forthcoming album out January 24th on Jagjaguwar. She also announces initial performances in support of Watch This Liquid Pour Itself. A full list of dates can be found below.
“Psych Ward,” produced by Kaya with co-production from Christoph Andersson (Cautious Clay), follows previously released singles/videos “Asexual Wellbeing,” “Baby Little Tween,” and “Ascend and Try Again.” On “Psych Ward,” Kaya’s scene of nurses making rounds is based on her personal experience of time spent in a hospital. Kaya describes the track and the video in her own words:
“This is basically a Hospital Evaluation Form. The last few days I was in a hospital a nurse unlocked one of the cabinets and let me use the rec room guitar, to play outside of art therapy class. I wrote what I saw to understand how I felt. It turned into this funny bop, I wanted it to feel like a Ramones song or something.
I wrote the lyrics in a very literal way as I often tend to do. When it was time for a music video I took the words ‘do the rounds’ even more literally by making Kaya pole dance in her daydream during her morning fitness routine. The fitness routines were always to an ABBA greatest hits CD, it felt much too ecstatic compared to the heavily drugged hospital bodies, barely out of bed, barely moving. I wanted the video to show that effort, because I am scared to forget. This whole album is filled with moments I am scared to forget, coming right at you projectile style.”
Although Kaya recorded most of Watch This Liquid Pour Itself herself, she also collaborated with producers Jacob Portrait (UMO, Whitney, (Sandy) Alex G) and John Carroll Kirby (Solange, Kali Uchis) to fully realize her ideas for how this record should sound. Each of the music videos for the new record are co-directed by Kaya and Adinah Dancyger, and were shot respectively in Germany, Japan, Norway, and New York.
Additionally, Kaya is pleased to announce that all of her music videos will be screening later this month – January 15th at Film Noir in New York and January 23rd at Now Instant in Los Angeles. She’ll also be performing solo on January 27th at the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as part of her Van Leeuwen collaboration. Kaya’s special “Eat Your Feelings” a vegan black sesame ice cream flavor, will be available for a limited time at their Williamsburg, Lower East Side and Silverlake (Los Angeles) scoop shops.
Watch “Psych Ward” Video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nedrz5vDug
Watch “Asexual Wellbeing” Video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrpUlmplkY
Watch “Baby Little Tween” Video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZP6B1ZzzPY
Watch “Ascend and Try Again” Video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhAG4jaZwsPre-order Watch This Liquid Pour Itself –
https://okaykaya.ffm.to/watchthisliquid
Okay Kaya Tour Dates:
Mon. Jan. 27 – Brooklyn, NY @ Van Leeuwen Ice Cream (RSVP)
Tue. Jan. 28 – New York, NY @ Whitney Museum of American Art (DJ Set)
Thu. Feb. 13 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
Fri. Feb. 28 – Oslo, NO @ By:Larm
Mon. March 2 – Paris, FR @ Pop Up
Wed. March 4 – London, UK @ SET
Sun. March 8 – San Diego, CA @ CRSSD
Mon. March 9 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
Tue. March 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge
Tue. March 17 – Sat. March 21 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
Fri. May 8 – Berlin, DE @ Pitchfork Festival
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