As part of our ongoing artist spotlight series, today we deep-dive into the artistry of Kunt Pills – an 18 year old artist based in Dayton, Ohio who is a producer and songwriter, visual artist, and performer. Kunt Pills creates experimental pop that ventures into otherworldly aspects of genres spanning r&b, electronica, ambient, and pop.
Kunt Pills has released more than two albums worth of songs in 2020 and 2021, which you can stream on all platforms, and takes us through three of their 2021 releases: Kenopsia, Diamond Trees and Family Tree. Artists that are in common with Kunt Pills include the awesome Chloe Hotline, Auden, moistbreezy and hyperpop legend Namasenda.
We love their immersive and transcendental vibe with intricate and through provoking lyricism but also the sense of wisdom which comes with their creations at just 18 years old.
“Kenopsia” expresses an intense dread of being alone in a place that was once filled with people, constantly filled with some form of life. But now empty, with just me there. It was only to be visited by one of the former inhabitants of said space periodically, simply reminding me how I’m the only one yet to fly into the new. On Bandcamp, I described the song like this.” A cold and empty feeling it is, being the last living thing where there was once nothing but life. Stories and energy exchanges stuck in one spot as memories. I fall lonely but not lonely enough to feel only desired when in the proximity of what’s now the graveyard of youth and destruction. This song is me saying I won’t be here forever, and as I grow, this place turns into another world I will soon fly away from.”
“Diamond Trees” is the second song of my last EP of the same name which expresses knowing just who is blocking you from your own potential. The era where you are your most valuable and have something to offer into the world sometimes of monetary gain. To reduce the possibilities of you ever seeing this fully, they tear you down and deconstruct your internal image of life and your value. You grow into a diamond tree, shiny and beautiful, but in a lumberjack’s backyard. Cut down so much that at this point you refuse to grow the jewels that come naturally to you.
The third song is the outro of “Diamond Trees” and describes a sit-down between a family that communicates to each other the reality of their lineage not being carried on as they imagined. It’s the dream everyone had fading away. Distant cries never leaving the throat in hopes that someone changes their mind. The song is intense and lives in a cave echoing around you—one of my favorites from the EP.
You can donate to Kunt Pills CashApp $KuntPills via this link, and buy all of these songs and more via Bandcamp, and of course, stream on Apple Music and Spotify.
