King Kiva is a singer-songwriter out of San Jose, California who has shared his new single, “Holocene Queen.”
There’s a dream-laden blend of folk and experimental bedroom rock here, with traces of eerie early Deerhunter and Animal Collective. Where the lo-fi nature and barren quality adds a dimension to the track as crucial as the next. It sounds like the sort of track we would’ve shared on these pages back in the late 2000s.
Speaking on the song, he adds:
This song started as a slight improv of a guitar riff, then I kept layering and layering, slowing down some bits, speeding it back up, messing with it from all angles. The lyrics are about feeling stuck in bad state of mind or time or life and wanting to move forward to something else. The Hadean eon is just no good place to be; the Cambrian period, it’s a party.
The vagueness of the Holocene Queen herself is important. It could be anyone, really, and attaching different people places different meanings. Who could possibly be queen of the Holocene? How do they relate to King Kiva?
Find “Holocene Queen” streaming now below.
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