Kin (KT Tunstall album)

Kin
Studio album by
Released9 September 2016 (2016-09-09)
Recorded2015–2016
StudioThe Hobby Shop
The Motherbrain
Sunset Sound
(Los Angeles)
Genre
Length46:14
Label
ProducerTony Hoffer
KT Tunstall chronology
Golden State EP
(2016)
Kin
(2016)
Live at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
(2016)
Singles from Kin
  1. "Maybe It's a Good Thing"
    Released: 15 July 2016
  2. "Hard Girls"
    Released: 1 September 2016
  3. "It Took Me So Long to Get Here, But Here I Am"
    Released: 29 November 2016
  4. "Two Way (promotional)"
    Released: 19 October 2017

Kin is the fifth studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. The release of the album marked the first release in a trilogy of albums to be released by Tunstall, the other two albums Wax and Nut were released in 2018 and 2022 respectively. Kin was released on 9 September 2016 worldwide, following up her previous album, the folk-toned Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon. It was preceded by the Golden State EP, which included one of the songs from the album, "Evil Eye". The album was produced by Tony Hoffer in a studio in Los Angeles.

Spawning a total of four singles – "Maybe It's a Good Thing", "Hard Girls", "It Took Me So Long to Get Here, But Here I Am" and "Two Way", the album peaked at number seven on both the Scottish Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart, and debuted at number ninety-six in on the national albums charts in Switzerland.