King Isis releases their second EP alongside focus track, "NVR RLLY"

"NVR RLLY is the last song on the EP and explores the unlearning of a toxic and abusive relationship. World-building and storytelling - no matter how big or small the project - is really important to me. I think visually storytelling is something I admire with some of my favorite artists and is something I feel like creates a larger moment with the music. A lot of this project represents the disheveled, dissonant, discomforting process of release - shedding ideas that hold me back from being fully whole," King Isis explains of the new single.

Along with the release of shed, King Isis shares a video for the EP’s last track "NVR RLLY", directed by Jessie Barr which follows earlier singles "MAKE IT UP" and "MONKI".

"The director, Jessie Barr, fully understood this catharsis, we had great conversations about what I was trying to convey with this project. As the tension builds up throughout the song, the video parallels. Throughout the video, there’s shedding of guilt, shame, and burden of ideals I had to unlearn. It’s a visual representation of not relying on another and grounding myself in both nature and rooting myself in what I needed."

shed comes as a companion piece to their brighter alt pop debut EP, scales, and was heavily inspired by Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s seminal text Borderlands/La Frontera and its examination of snakes as a metaphor and theme of purging.

King Isis will be performing twice at this year’s The Great Escape as part of a wider run of UK/EU shows in May, kicking off with a headline performance at Third Man Records in Soho, before rolling through Amsterdam for London Calling and Outbreak festival in Manchester on 28 June.