Solutions

Interscope/Night Street

K.Flay is finished caring what anyone thinks. Solutions, her third full-length offering, is a 10-track alt-pop hip-hop album whose singles hint at a project brimming with catharsis. She wrote the album after returning home from her last tour and finding herself in a dark headspace. After revisiting what made her happy in childhood, before vices like drugs and alcohol made emotional suppression easier than self-reflection, she was inspired to return to that mindset through doodling, long phone calls with her mom, and reconnecting with music in its purest form. Solutions is the result.

The album opens with “I Like Myself,” an affirming anthem about accepting the fact that maybe we’re all more average than we present ourselves to be on social media.

K.Flay slows down and gets more pensive on “Nervous,” which is a just-as-synthy but less bass-heavy exploration of the nervous excitement of a new relationship when that uncertainty over where things stand still lingers heavily in the air.

Solutions uses instrumentation sparingly in a way that complements K.Flay’s confident vocals and refined lyricism, which weave the album together from track one to finale “DNA.”

The project is a personal one that offers an intimate glimpse into the mind of an artist whose energy is palpable.

Jordan Yeager

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