Kynsy shares video for 'Simple Life' from new EP, announces Irish & UK shows

Dublin-based musician Kynsy has released her brand new EP Something To Do With Love, alongside the video for 'Simple Life' and news of a UK & Irish tour.

The five-track EP features the recently dropped tracks 'New Year', 'Point of You' and 'Love of Your Life'. Infectious new offering 'Simple Life' song tackling the confusion of love and the nagging second thoughts that come with the throes of such an intense relationship with woozy percussion and a circling hook to get you dancing as a means to shake it all loose.

On the video Kynsy says, “I really like keeping my videos fun. Simple Life is directed by Eilís Doherty and together we had a great time concocting a nightmare scenario for Elle, the star of the video. She's on a night out, she wakes up after a car crash with some curry chips on her lap and she's stabbed a taxi driver in the neck. Is she dreaming, or dead and in purgatory or hell? Do they eat curry chips there? Who knows?”

The visuals see Elishka Lane drifting around a club watching Kynsy perform, while the Sleazy Taxi Man is played by Gary Byrne. Check it out below:

24-year-old Ciara Lindsey is constructing a name for herself, throwing love songs and confrontational battlecries at the wall to see what sticks.

It began with the rising Dubliner’s debut EP Things That Don’t Exist released last year, a few months after she featured in the NME 100.

On her second EP, Kynsy is fully embracing the confidence that comes with her ever-growing knowledge as a songwriter, producer and performer, presenting a boisterous collection of tracks without being constrained by genre, format or theme. The new songs build on the swaggering wit of the first EP, the observational frustration with modern living now shapeshifting into something broader, grander, even stronger.

“Last time, I wasn’t brave enough to make it sound a bit rough at times. I want to keep the rawness”, Kynsy says. The resulting EP stitches together a picture of love in all its vivid, beautiful, illogical and intoxicating forms by taking the listener through the journey of one person trying to break down each destabilising chapter of it. “It’s about emotion and the feeling of the music, as opposed to trying to say something really deep,” Kynsy says, calling the EP “direct” and “about pleasure and joy and confusion”.

The new EP was co-produced with Alt-J regular Charlie Andrew, who worked with Kynsy in Dalston’s Old Workshop, where Alt-J recorded so much of the weird, wondrous music which changed everything for them. “Every song I gave to Charlie, he was like, ‘How can we make this weirder?’” Kynsy says of their collaboration, something of a breath of fresh air to have her bedroom demos embraced, celebrated, re-amped and reinvigorated as opposed to disregarded as child’s play.

Catch her performing at Dublin's Workman's Club Cellar on December 2nd, finishing a tour that stops in Leeds, Glasgow, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

Read our brand new interview with Kynsy here.

Tickets on sale Friday 16th September at 10am.

Kynsy Tour Dates

4th November - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
5th November - Broadcast, Glasgow
17th November - Winthrop Avenue, Cork
18th November - Upstairs at Dolan’s, Limerick
19th November - The Loft, Galway
2nd December - The Workman's Club Cellar, Dublin