ミネソタ州セントポール拠点のミュージシャン Jake Luppenによるソロプロジェクト Lupinが、10/9にGrand Jury・Transgressive Recordsからリリースするデビューアルバム『Lupin』より、先行シングル 'KO Kid'のMVを公開！
制作は David Kramer, Karla Mellett。
人気と実力を兼ね備えたロックバンド Hippo Campusのボーカリスト・ギタリストとしてバリバリ活躍する人のサイドプロジェクト感ゼロの本気ソロ作。
コラボレーター・プロデューサーは BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Low, Charli XCX)、キーボードで Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean)、ドラムで JT Bates (Taylor Swift)が参加してます。
“I had the KO Kid guitar progression for a long time before I eventually worked it into a finished track,” “I was having a really difficult time trying to write a melody over it, so one day I decided to just improvise the vocals for the verses, which is why the melody feels more off the cuff than the other songs. The lyrics allude to the night I told my girlfriend at the time about my attraction to a non-binary friend. I’ve spent most of my life repressing my attraction to people that didn’t identify as women, so I wrote the idea of the KO KID-character as a way to fight those inhibitive and self-imposed judgments.”
