New York’s Sarah Kinsley is fascinated by creating imaginary worlds and alternate realities. She tries to conjure these with her music, but it requires the unlocking of one’s imagination to really go there. Sarah encourages you to try it though. We all need an escape.
To that end, Sarah’s first album is called “Escaper”, and to which world you choose to escape is ultimately your own decision. This is vibrant, bold, beautiful music that confronts death and loss, the decimation of old friendships, romantic love’s shortcomings compared to the love shared with close friends, and fraught relationships that flourished and then fizzled. It sounds hugely confident, a real body of work. “A huge way of how I get through life and pain and horrible experiences is through the creation of these spaces where you can become someone else as a distraction—as a means to solving grief,” Sarah says. She works through it all as if the centrepiece of an epic poem, with high drama melodies and huge sweeping choruses.
Sarah Kinsley announces headline show at Whelan’s, Dublin
with special guest Linn Koch-Emmery
Friday, 8th November 2024
Tickets from €17.45 including booking fees, on sale Friday, 21st June at 10am from singularartists.ie