KAETO has shared her new single ‘CARRY YOU’ alongside a self-produced video shot in Iceland. The track is the latest taste to be offered from KAETO’s forthcoming debut mixtape INTRO, set for release on September 20th via Polydor Records, ahead of the London-based musician opening for The Last Dinner Party on their UK tour.
‘CARRY YOU is an intoxicating mixture of atmospheric grooves and trip-hop atmospherics, KAETO’s haunting and multi layered vocals are magnetic, meditating upon the contraditions of love and the passage of time. It is one of 8 tracks that will feature on KAETO’s debut project INTRO alongside her brilliant recent singles ‘U R MINE’ and ‘HERO’.
Speaking about ‘CARRY YOU’ Kaeto says, “This song is about the heaviness of loving a person and how much loving someone or something can feel like a grey contradiction; comforting and exhausting. There have been many different versions of the chorus lyrics of this song and I felt that this was because the feeling that I was trying to capture is one that I struggle to understand in my own life. Love is a confusing necessity and I love the way in which it creates impact and heaviness in my life. It feels very human. I often feel very moved and quite sad about time passing. It is something I reflect on a lot and so this song is an expression of that feeling”.
The mixtape was written and produced by KAETO and Mathias Wang (aka Junkmail). Many of the songs on INTRO were written while the pair were in Seville, which Kaeto describes as “such an inspiring place to work and one of my favourite places on earth.”
‘CARRY YOU’ is accompanied by a video which, as with previous videos for U R MINE and HERO, Kaeto created with her group of friends. She elaborates, “Maisy, Reuben, Dan and myself shot this video in Iceland. One of the most incredible places I have been. We had brought a speaker but unfortunately it died so we had to be creative in order to have playback. The song is actually playing out of a secret phone belonging to Maisy hidden in my boot.”
KAETO has been captivating audiences with her mesmerising live performances, opening as special guest for Haim, Lauren Mayberry, Eliza and Bleachers and will support The Last Dinner Party on their UK tour in October.
The emerging London-based artist is fast carving a space for herself with her unique genre-spanning sound that blends elements of trip-hop, dance and electronic music with punk, alt-pop and more.
It was back in 2019 that Kaeto first entered the studio with outside producers and began building a sound that would be all her own, but the route she’s taken since is a mark of her maverick and inventive approach to music. One such diversion was enrolling in Clown School, a move designed to throw herself into something creative and spontaneous and shake off the mundanity of modern life. It’s why Kaeto’s music has such a free-spirited, loose-limbed sense of adventure about it. “I’m so unashamed of myself,” she says, “but music is where I go to explore these things.”
Photo credit: Maisy Banks
