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Erin K releases new single ‘Keep Her’
With a growing audience of over 3 million streams on Spotify, following the fruitful collaboration on 2019s I Need Sound, the American-born London-resident musician has continued her work with co-producer Kristofer Harris (Belle & Sebastian, Ghostpoet) and recorded new album Sink to Swim at his Squarehead Studios in Kent.
Erin’s narrative-driven songs are as forthright and personal as they are engaging and the candid nature of her often fearlessly self-deprecating lyrics make repeated listens of the timeless songs rewarding. None more so than Keep Her. “This song illustrates the circumstances of a girl who is bound to her relationship with a controlling partner”, Erin says. “It is written almost in the form of an encouraging letter to the dominant party, offering advice on how to “keep her by [his] side so she can’t let go”. As the verses unfold, the extent to which this girl is broken and bound are poetically revealed.”
This subject matter is intensely personal to Erin who “found myself in similar relationship dynamics in the past. It’s disturbing how reality can be so drastically altered in this way.”
The song evolved considerably from its original form to the final studio recording. “Musically, it was interesting to witness the evolution of this song, originating as something very sombre and heavy. The arrangement is lighter now, serving as a nice contrast to the subject matter”.
The video for Keep Her was made in an unconventional way using cutting edge gaming technology. Director Dylan Copeland explains, “Using camera trackers designed for gaming, and a hardware compositor designed for broadcast, we projected Erin and her guitar from our studio in London to a bench in a virtual clearing in a virtual forest in an Unreal Engine”.
Combined with traditional motion graphics, layered animations originating from Erin’s own illustrations and live performance, the result is beautiful and engaging and reflects the spirit of her signature combination of irony, candour and wit.
With sessions for BBC 6 Music, Radio 1 airplay and major commercial syncs for Google and LG her left-field songwriting is gradually reaching the wider audience that it deserves.
Erin K is touring with her band through Italy in March with UK & European dates to be announced. Her new album Sink to Swim will be released in June.
Tour dates:
09 March GERMI, Milano
10 March CARACOL, Pisa
11 March DELIRI, Sora
12 March MR ROLLY’S, Vitulazio
15 March MALTO GRADIMENTO, Reggio C.
16 March RETRONOUVEAU, Messina
17 March SONICA, Siracusa
18 March MUG, Comiso
19 March ZOOTV, Brucoli
20 March BOLAZZI, Palermo
22 March PADDY’S, Catanzaro Lido
24 March MERCATO NUOVO, Taranto
25 March PROVO CULT, San Giovanni Rotondo
26 March OFFICINA 72, Agropoli
28 March MARLA, Perugia
29 March FAT, Terni
30 March COCKNEY LONDON PUB, Correzzola
31 March AI PRETI, Verona
01 April ARCI DALLÒ, Castiglione delle Stiviere
Rewind is the kind of project that sounds like it was made in a room where no one was watching — and that’s exactly why it hits. Gogo, a Stockholm-born artist, builds his four-track EP from splinters of R&B, alt-pop, soul, and rock, stitching them together with emotional candor and a cinematic eye.
This is music that resists neat packaging. Where a lesser artist might lean into high-gloss production to patch over vulnerability, Gogo amplifies it. On “Cut Me Down,” he lets the cracks show — both in his voice and the production. It’s raw in a way that feels lived-in, not engineered.
There’s a duality to Rewind: it’s personal but expansive, fragile yet fully realized. The lyrics read like journal entries written after long nights of overthinking — “In Too Deep” especially feels like it was recorded under the weight of unspoken thoughts. The arrangements are sparse but immersive, often leaving space for silence to do the talking.
Gogo’s artistic philosophy — one of zero compromise — is baked into the DNA of this EP. He’s been open about rejecting the trend of artists becoming content creators first and musicians second. That resistance shows. Rewind doesn’t chase a hook; it builds slowly, deliberately. Sometimes too slowly. The EP’s pacing can feel like it drifts, particularly for listeners expecting clear-cut structure or resolution.
But that’s the point. Rewind isn’t a neatly tied emotional arc — it’s a snapshot of someone still running, still figuring it out. It doesn’t offer closure, only confrontation. And in that confrontation, there’s beauty.
With plans to expand Rewind into a full-length film, Gogo is positioning himself not just as a musician, but as a world-builder — someone more concerned with meaning than metrics. In a time when music often feels disposable, Rewind lingers.
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