Dutch-born, Brighton-based rising neo-soul songstress Kymara will releases herself from the constraints of genre with a visceral exploration into the human condition on her latest EP, New Road. Following up on the release of the EP’s two stunning singles earlier this year, - the shroom-induced jazz-haze bop Trippin and the records eponymous soul-sizzler New Road -, Kymara is back and offering up a larger-than-life contextualisation of her most recent sonic chapter, with “a record that addresses the tumultuous plight of the modern twenty-something”. New Road arrives as the precursor to Kymara’s up-coming UK/EU tour, which will see the songstress performing her growing discography across a curated selection of intimate venues throughout the summer.

Having begun writing New Road during lockdown, Kymara’s forthcoming body of work has inherited an endearing stylistic dissonance across tracks as a result of its early sessions being jammed-out over Zoom and through e-mails with the instrumentalists that make up the vocalists live band. Intent on cutting no corners with this next musical chapter, the bulk of the project was written in-between lockdowns whenever the band could fit in rehearsals, so that Kymara’s characteristic propensity for cultivating organic sounds to accompany her dreamy lyricism could truly shine through. Kymara then moved her band into the apartments attached to the iconic Echo Zoo Studios for a week after the final lockdown was lifted, and spent each joyous final recording session surrounded by the same instrumentalists whose musical ideas were vital in building New Road from the ground up.