Sarah Kinsley Recently Released Her New EP 'Fleeting'
- Sabrina Shahryar
- 11 hours ago
- 4 min read
How do you fill a bond with the crowd and create a shared universal emotional space?
Sarah: I would say half of it is what I attempt to do, and the other half is the people who come to the shows. They bring the sweetest, most divine energy that I have ever experienced. I've been constantly surprised by how kind people are at my shows. There are moments where people really dig in and are energetic. Then there are moments that feel so intimate and peaceful. I don't feel like I'm curating that. I think the people who are coming are choosing to do that, or they are naturally really peaceful, beautiful people. I feel very thankful for that. I do my best; every night on tour is very different. I'm always gauging energy. I get such an adrenal rush on stage. I love touring. I want people to come into this world. My team and I spent so much time creating a visual world to step into. The tour is no different of a place to do that.
Is there a song on the EP that you're especially proud of from a production standpoint?
Sarah: "Lonely Touch” is my favorite song. I'm very proud of that song. That is the first song I wrote for this ep. The production, I felt so bad for my collaborator, Jake, who also mixed it. We packed so much into that song, I was like, don't even think about getting rid of anything in that song. I'm proud of that one. Sometimes I love listening to music that is quiet, ambient, folk, but also sometimes I love noise and being drowned out with sound. The outro for "Lonely Touch” is just packed with so much. Many instruments and sounds at full volume. I was really proud of it when we made it because it felt like this amazing sonic representation of what I felt in this song, which is this unrelenting desire or yearning that you can't separate yourself from. To have production that could surround you and make you feel that, and for it to be this unstoppable wall of sound. I felt we really accomplished that.
What do you hope listeners feel when they hear this new music for the first time?
Sarah: This is a tough question for me. I want people to take what they want from the music. I don't want to prescribe a specific experience. If people find relief from the music that's already beautiful. If they go to the music to let out sadness or anger, I'm okay with that. I'm just grateful people feel anything towards the music at all. This EP in particular is about impermanence, it's about understanding that you can still feel euphoria or catharsis even if something won't last. My hope is that people will feel even a bit of that when they listen. I feel like I don't have a right to tell people how to feel when they listen to my music; it's entirely individual.
Do you have a favorite lyric on the EP?
Sarah: Yeah, I have a lot of favorites. There's a lyric about the comedown from desire and pursuing something or someone and feeling this change in emotion. There's a lyric that goes “ I can't deny something between us changed, I felt the sea, and now I'm standing in the drain.” I just really like that. I don't know exactly why I like it, and I like singing it.
What was your favorite part of working on your project? Is there anything you're scared to put out into the world?
Sarah: For the second part, it's definitely hard. This EP I'm writing very literally about certain life experiences. The only fear I have is maybe being too honest or talking very literally about situations. I don't really fear that, though it's just part of it. It's a fear, but I'm also kind of excited to have people hear the music. Collaborating with Jake, who we live in the same neighborhood in New York, was just so much fun. I feel like he is a collaborator whom I magically found, and he understands my brain and how I like to work. It was fun to track out our ideas. There's a first stage in production where everything kind of sounds like shit for a few days. Then there is a beautiful period where things come together and feel really magical. That is the whole point for me: when you hear something that goes from ugly and raw to being alluring and interesting, it takes shape. That was my favorite part of the process.
If “Fleeting” could send a message to “Escaper,” what would it say?
Sarah: There's a lot of different mantras about time passing. There's an underlying message on this EP of let the future reveal itself to you, or people reveal themselves to you. I think this EP will probably tell my first album that it's very okay to want to escape into different realms and be somewhere else. But to just allow the future to reveal itself.
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