Kinnie Starr returns with DestroyHer, her tenth studio album

Canadian artist Kinnie Starr returns with DestroyHer, her tenth studio album and first full-length release in eight years. Released via her independent label Violet Inch Records, the 10-song album finds Starr bringing her signature bass-heavy beats, raw guitar and unmistakable voice to some of her most personal and politically charged work yet. Written in the wake of losing both her younger brother and father, DestroyHer moves through grief, resilience and love while examining the larger forces shaping our lives — from environmental destruction and colonialism to consumption and our increasingly complicated relationship with technology.

That tension between the deeply personal and the political runs throughout the record. Songs like “DESTROYER” confront a culture of endless consumption and destruction, while “Waters: Redux,” featuring Julian Taylor, revisits Starr’s longstanding connection between environmental responsibility, Indigenous lands and our relationship with water. Produced by Starr alongside longtime collaborators Lin Gardiner and Elisa Pangsaeng, DestroyHer is confrontational when it needs to be, but there’s also humour, tenderness and hope running through it — ultimately making the album as much about repair and connection as it is about everything we stand to lose.

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