Parlotones frontman Kahn Morbee has been creating exceptional music from years and has found a sweet spot with his solo material that differentiates himself from the popular group he is part of while still packing a punch through the stories he tells and the musicality he tells them with. Over the past few months, Kahn has been writing and recording his third studio album – and the new era has officially begun.
Kahn announces today that he will release his upcoming album ‘A World At Suicide’ on 23 September and teases the project with a brand-new single titled ‘All The Beauty’. The new album comes hot off the heels of his previous projects ‘Salt’ and ‘A Noise In The Void’.
On the project’s lead single, Kahn says that he was inspired by the world today and his experiences living through a pandemic. “The opening lines of this song was changed to reflect the covid context that caused me delaying the release of the album. ‘There’s a scarecrow standing in the middle of the street (metaphor for covid) everyone’s playing hide-and-seek (lockdown) …. every day seems exactly the same (extended lockdown)’” Kahn explains. “ The gist of the song is accepting that life is a series of ups and downs and despite the numerous hurdles we face, the experience of life itself is a beautiful one, even though it’s immensely flawed and sometimes because it’s immensely flawed. Flaws and beauty are ultimately subjective.”
The star adds that he can’t wait for fans to hear the new music he has been working on when ‘A World At Suicide’ drops next month. Kahn reveals that he had completed the album in March 2020 and planned on releasing and touring around June before the pandemic hit and forced him to park the album.
He explains “Whilst ‘parking’ the album, and with time on my hands I began to tinker: add parts and subtract parts. Whilst ‘fiddling’ I realised that the album lacked a cohesive thread, something that glued it all together so that the listener would know that there was a certain ‘something’ that gave the songs a collective personality,” Kahn tells us. “I had bought a Korg synthesiser / vocoder years ago and decided that I was going to use that as the sonic glue and so you’ll hear smatterings of vintage synth and vocoder voices throughout the album. Had covid halted my release this bit of tinkering may not have happened. I feel it adds a little sparkle to the album that indicates that these 12 songs originate from the same zip code.”
Listen to ‘All The Beauty’ below and read more music news here.
