King Princess confirms second album title and releases single, ‘For My Friends’
'Hold On Baby' will be released later this year
By Joe Goggins
King Princess has confirmed the title of her second album, and shared a new track – you can see the video below.
The singer-songwriter, real name Mikaela Straus, released ‘For My Friends’ today (March 21), along with a Nick Harwood-directed video. It arrives ahead of her new album, ‘Hold On Baby’, which will be released later this year. Discussing the new track, she said: “I thought it would be extra fab to begin releasing this new record with a song about my two best friends from high school.”
“These girls have been through the pits with me, and the more time I spend with them as an adult, the more I’m reminded that they are my home. So thank you my angel horse queens for sticking with me. I love you all and I can’t wait to give you this song.”
The track follows on from ‘Little Bother’, a anthemic indie rock collaboration with alt-soul singer Foushée that was released in January. It is not clear whether that song will appear on ‘Hold On Baby’. Written in conjunction with Denzel Curry collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Zach Fogarty, Straus said of the song at the time: “I have been a big fan of Fousheé for a while, so when we started DM’ing and eventually set a date in the studio, it was a dream. ‘Little Bother’ kind of came out of nowhere; Zach had the guitar part and Fou and I just started going off.”
“It became this song about tiptoeing around someone you’ve lost and feeling like a pest,” she continued. “It poses questions to a person who may not be listening at all and I think that’s a beautiful sentiment.”
‘Hold On Baby’ will be the follow-up to her 2019 debut album, ‘Cheap Queen’, which appeared on a litany of year-end best-of lists. A deluxe edition with an additional five tracks followed in February of 2020. King Princess has U.S. tour dates run the diary for July, September and October, offering a possible hint as to the release date for ‘Hold On Baby’.