Track by Track is our recurring series where artists guide readers through each song on a release. Today, Rainbow Kitten Surprise lead vocalist Ela Melo delves into each song on the band's sprawling new album.
It's been quite a while since Rainbow Kitten Surprise released new music; The group's last long-term project was from 2018. How: Friend, Love, Free Fall. You'd never know such a gap existed, though, as the sold-out crowd at Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl on May 6 gathered just days before the release of the band's new album. love and hate music box. “Welcome back, RKS!” It was the common refrain between the songs.
In 22 songs, love and hate music box It's a long effort and the reality is that the members of RKS simply had a lot to say. “It's like a rebrand for us,” shares guitarist and vocalist Bozzy Keller.
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Before the evening concert, lead vocalist Ela Melo sits down with Consequence to talk about each song in love and hate music box, bright red lipstick lingering on her coffee cup. For her, the album comes down to the age-old balance between love and hate.
“They are not only in our brain, not even in our emotions,” he explains. “They are a tangible force, as tangible as gravity or electromagnetic energies. “They are real physical forces and they direct the universe.”
As fans patiently wait for new music from the band, Ela also takes note of the current state of the online conversation, and it's a sentiment she later echoes on stage at the Brooklyn Bowl.
“I think there is a place for all of this. If you hate it, you hate it; Now let's talk about why. If you love it, you love it; Let’s talk about why,” she says. “The 'why' is much more important to me than a compliment. So regardless of what people say about it, what I say is, 'Thank you for listening to my music.'”
stream love and hate music box below, and read on for Ela's track-by-track breakdown of each song on the album.
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