King Princess returns with announcement of third album, Girl Violence

"‘RIP KP’ is about the sexy side of girl violence - when love takes over your brain like a cordyceps and suddenly you’re getting fucked all over your house, acting a fool. It’s the perfect way to open the record: dramatic, unhinged, and a little tongue-in-cheek," King Princess explains. "I wrote it during a full ego death - leaving LA, my label, my old life - and somehow landed back in NYC making the music I would’ve obsessed over at 15. It’s a slutty anthem for the lesbians. We need debauchery this summer."

The forthcoming King Princess record is the sound of Mikaela Straus picking up the pieces after her world fell apart – fighting for freedom, stepping back from the limelight and major label system, breaking up, moving away, and returning to NYC where she was born and raised.

“I was not loving life, I didn't feel grounded at all. I realized my feet were dangling for years. Once I was back in the arms of the city I love, I started to feel easier and lighter about hard decisions that were actually in my best interest,” she says of her end-stage time in LA. “It's about recognizing that we have an abundance of love in our life. I don't think I will ever lose the ability to stop loving or creating big loves. You can have crazy fallouts and breakups, but you aren't incapable of loving, if anything, I think it makes you more capable.”

King Princess will take the album on the road for a tour later this year across North America. She’ll then bring the tour to the UK and Europe in December starting in Dublin and running through key UK cities of Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester before landing at London’s Brixton Electric on 9 December.

Tracklist:

1. Girl Violence
2. Jaime
3. Origin Story
4. I Feel Pretty
5. Cry Cry Cry
6. Get Your Heart Broken
7. Girls
8. Covers
9. Say What You Will
10. RIP KP
11. Alone Again
12. Slow Down and Shut Up
13. Serena