Kai Bosch releases his new single "Everything Is Beautiful" - a song about falling in love with his boyfriend on hinge! Inbox
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Praise for Kai Bosch:
“The alt-pop voyager has built a steady catalogue rooted in emotional honesty, with his first two EPs ‘SLIPPING’ and ‘Spider’ finding acclaim online. Out now, ‘Bodybag’ pivots in a spartan, minimalist direction, with Kai Bosch baring his soul. The single dips into relationship trauma, exploring the long, upsetting days before a romantic partnership comes to a close.
CLASH
“On “Tulips”… Bosch exposes a more mature, vulnerable figure. While retaining his signature bouncy and gossamer qualities, this subtle evolution to the artist’s sound will kibosh any doubts about his potential to keep audiences swaying in dimly-lit venues.
THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“Armed with an artillery of sincere vocals and heartfelt lyrcisicm, alt-pop artist Kai Bosch has cruised onto the music scene to great appraisal. With a musical style that has previously been compared to the likes of James Blake, Kai’s discography is a richly emotive blend of subtly undulating electric beats, soft percussive elements and, of course, his own distinctive crooning voice.”
TMRW MAGAZINE
“I think he’s got something proper special”
MAIA BETH, BBC RADIO 1 FUTURE POP
Following on from the highly-praised EP ‘Love, Throw Me A Bone’ released earlier this year which saw him described by CLASH MAGAZINE as “riveting alt-pop over-sharer”, as well as his recent sold out London headline show at The Social, which was attended by a who’s who of up and coming musical talent including Fred Roberts, Katie Gregson-Macleod, Nieve Ella, Erin Lecount, Alessi Rose and Hannah Grae, fast-rising UK artist Kai Bosch is back on the grind once again this time with an out and out pop banger, the brand new single “Everything Is Beautiful”.
As a stark departure from his recent collection, “Everything Is Beautiful” is a hard and heavy slice of pulsing electro-pop, brimming with bright and infectious energy. Teaming up with producer Duncan Mills, best known for his work with Florence + The Machine, LCD Soundsystem, Miles Kane, Nell Mescal and many more, Kai Bosch is returning to the fold with one of his most euphoric efforts yet.
Adding about the new release, he said, "Everything Is Beautiful is my first ever happy song! It’s about falling for my now-boyfriend over Hinge and even though we hadn’t been on a date yet (lol) I just felt that “when you know you know” feeling and it was unlike anything I’d experienced before.
"I’ve always struggled writing happy songs because it’s so easy to be cliché or cheesy but when I was writing Everything Is Beautiful I didn’t really care because I was so blinded by how amazing I felt and that’s all I wanted to reflect. That really shows in the production too, I went into the studio with Duncan Mills and told him I just wanted to have fun and make music for my gay 14-year-old self that was addicted to Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds and cheap nail polish from Boots.
"I’m so relieved that the man I wrote this song about actually ended up becoming my boyfriend, otherwise that would’ve been very embarrassing for me - but probably also quite on brand."
Having already been extremely busy on the live circuit throughout the last few years, including festival appearances at Latitude, Boardmasters and The Great Escape, and supporting both Katie Gregson MacLeod and Gretel Hanlyn on their recent UK/EU tours, Kai Bosch will also take the stage at London’s The Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton on November 22nd. Tickets are available HERE.
Whether it be from the isolation of his rural Cornish upbringing, the pure hedonism of Berlin’s throbbing nightlife or in the thick of London’s romantic grime, Kai Bosch has always made music for himself.
Hailing from the sleepy fishing village of Port Isaac in North Cornwall, Kai’s story is an all too familiar queer tale of feeling bigger than your surroundings. “I came out when I was 14, I was the only gay kid at my school and in a very closed-minded part of the country - I didn’t quite know who I was or how I fitted into that world.” - to bide his time, Kai found comfort in the diaristic preachings of Lorde’s Pure Heroine and the hushed introverted cool of The xx. “Music was the only thing that helped me cope, I found artists like Lorde and The xx and was so inspired seeing these teenagers just coming out and saying how they felt about things and the world celebrating them for it! It really sparked something in me and I realised I had so much that I needed to say too.”
At 17 Kai decided to take music seriously, dropping out of college without any A-levels he blagged his way onto a Popular Music degree at Goldsmiths University and uprooted himself to London via a brief stint in Berlin. Newly in London he fell into the catalogues of James Blake, FKA Twigs and Radiohead and let their avant-pop sounds steer his own ever-evolving pursuit of style. “I ended up with a really bizarre music taste! My playlists were jumping between these really acclaimed artists straight into a niche Girls Aloud B-side.” Bosch clearly uses this to his advantage, his music often smushing together commercial pop hooks with a more left-field production.
Now 22 and two years into releasing as Kai Bosch, authenticity has always remained at the heart of what Kai puts out - whether it be wrestling with his own trauma or coming to terms with the end of a relationship, feeling comes first. “I want to make songs that I can listen back to and live in that exact moment - whether it be reeling from an argument with my ex-boyfriend or being drunk on a balcony in Berlin, the “sound” that I was chasing for so long was actually just me and my voice, everything I put out is an extension of me and that’s what ties all of my songs together - genre or not!”
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