Kitty feels a phantom ache on “Sympathy Pains”

After attending the BRIT School in Croydon, South London, Kitty has steadily built a reputation as one of todayโ€™s finest โ€œsophisti-popโ€ artists. Kittyโ€™s new single โ€œSympathy Painsโ€ is an impeccably crafted song that gets hookier with each listen.

Itโ€™s the first single from Kittyโ€™s second EP Swimming For Dummies, slated for release next May. The artist describes the opus-in-progress with this memorable line: โ€œGoing through your 20s is like learning to swim with no instructions.โ€

With regard to the new single, Kitty notes, โ€œThis song marks a new beginning for me and my music, with a sound I created with my producer, Jules Konieczny, that feels like my personality in a song, so I’m really proud of it! I wrote it about a friend who was leaning on me like a therapist so much that it started to impact my own mental health, which is when the words ‘sympathy pains’ came to me. When I brought the idea to my good friend and co-writer Francesca Morris, the song just started flowing.โ€

โ€œSympathy Painsโ€ is one of those songs that washes over you on multiple levels, so itโ€™s easy to miss its brilliance on the first pass. But give it three plays and youโ€™ll be a Kitty fan for life.

Listen to โ€œSympathy Painsโ€ below, or find it on the streaming platforms.


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