Kina Grannis
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surprise!!!
🕑 Added 2021-10-12 16:33:31 +0000 UTCoh my sweet kg records family, the new album is finally complete and out in the world!! 😱😭♥️🎉 thank you all so much for keeping me afloat throughout the making of this album--what a wild few years it has been. thank you for your love and support and encouragement and generosity and patience. this album would not be here without the mighty humans of kg records behind me and for that i am endlessly grateful.
this collection of songs chronicles my last three years of life—including moments of immense grief and hopelessness as well as moments of incredible clarity and gratitude. these songs found me as i navigated social anxiety and tended to my mental health, tried to come to terms with a world seemingly on fire, and journeyed through infertility, IVF, and a miscarriage. within all of that, however, there were tremendous amounts of beauty and love, too.
these three years have been so chock-full of humanness. they broke me open and filled me up over and over again, taught me incredible lessons (and then taught them to me again every time i inevitably forgot what i had learned), and gave me such an incredibly deep love and compassion for all humans going through their stuff. my “stuff” may have looked a certain way these past years, but as humans, the raw experiences we go through—love, loss, joy, despair, existential overwhelm, etc, really bind and bond us in our humanness. this record is a meditation on lost dreams, hope, surrender, and the ultimate realization that we have everything we need.
these last 9 months especially have been so rich with life—double pregnant with a miracle human baby and a labor-of-love album baby, and it’s been so meaningful to build them in tandem and have them both entering the world around the same time. after everything we’ve been through, it’s impossible to describe how special it feels that this album cover features TWO humans on their own journeys. our daughter could be arriving any day now (which is just completely surreal and mind-blowing and nuts!), so i’m particularly thrilled i get to share THIS baby with you now before life gets a little crazy for a while. i can’t believe i am here after all these years. “it’s hard to be human” is out now in all the places ♥️
sending so much love and gratitude to you all!!!!
xo
kina
Comments
Kimberly Chea
I started listening to the album today and it was so beautiful. The music was calming and just what I needed during my rough day at work. I can not wait to see you blossom into a wonderful mother as you begin motherhood!
I'm already emotional just seeing the album cover. Gotta get myself ready to listen to it in full. Congrats on album baby release, Kina! <3 hope you, Jesse, and the bb are always healthy.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us Kina <3 <3
Woke up this morning to your notification about album release - fantastic. Congratulations! Such great achievements! So happy for you and your family 😊 Loving this album, had it on repeat today; so calming, which was needed. Love the album cover btw 👍
Congratulations!
all of this brings me such joy <3 🐻
all i can say is, “i love you, kina” ❤️ the music and your upcoming daughter truly bring tears to my eyes. thank you.
I love everything about this!!! Congratulations and thank you!! ❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️🎉
Carver 秋照 Oblander
Congrats and good luck! ❤️❤️❤️
Kina… Wisdom rising …. That’s what comes to mind as I reflect on the journey you have shared with us these past few years…I’m so happy for you and your soon to be bigger family… congratulations on all fronts and sending much love into your universe
