Kate Miller-Heidke Announces New Album ‘The Kiss And The Abyss’
Today, acclaimed singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke announces her forthcoming album The Kiss and The Abyss, alongside the release of its first single and video, Holiday, and a national Australian tour.
Written with long-time collaborator Keir Nuttall and recorded in England with producer Tom Iansek, The Kiss & The Abyss finds Miller-Heidke returning to the folk influences that first shaped her songwriting, while embracing darker textures, theatrical storytelling and richly layered arrangements.
Leading the album is Holiday, an irresistibly offbeat slice of observational pop that captures the all-too-familiar experience of placing impossible expectations on a much-needed escape, only to watch it unravel in real time. Built around a hypnotic guitar motif and peppered with sharply funny, deeply relatable details – from potato scallops and disappointing beach days to mosquito bites and existential dread – the track is both wryly hilarious and quietly poignant.
“It’s about needing a holiday so much that you sabotage your own holiday,” says Kate. “You anticipate it for months, and then somehow it all goes spectacularly wrong. I think everyone has experienced that.”
Directed by acclaimed Australian filmmaker John Sheedy (The Rabbits, Runt), the video features much loved drag queens Serenity and Lazy Susan (winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 4) amongst a colourful cast of characters who weave in and out of the story, embodying the wonderfully awkward, chaotic spirit of an old-fashioned Australian beach holiday.
Across eleven songs, The Kiss and The Abyss navigates beauty and darkness in equal measure, drawing on gothic folk traditions while remaining unmistakably Kate Miller-Heidke: fearless, emotionally raw and impossible to pin down.
To celebrate the release, Miller-Heidke will embark on a series of intimate, exclusive album launch shows around the country, bringing the new record to life for the first time, alongside songs from her much-loved catalogue. Dates & tickets here.
With The Kiss and The Abyss, Kate Miller-Heidke delivers her most compelling and singular works to date – a record that invites listeners to sit with contradiction, embrace vulnerability and find beauty in the unknown.
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE – NEW ALBUM THE KISS AND THE ABYSS
OUT AUGUST 14 – PRE-ORDER HERE NOW
NEW SINGLE HOLIDAY – OUT NOW – LISTEN HERE
ALBUM LAUNCH SHOWS ANNOUNCED FOR AUG-SEPT – DATES & TICKETS HERE
