Kinneret is charging boldly in the calvary of the new wave. Striking in her sound and dazzling in her tone, she has been impressing fans with her unique approach to creation, amassing over 2 million monthly listeners on Spotiffy and attracting a huge Internet following.
The singer-songwriter has just released her ethereal and conceptual third album, All That I Know, which sees her lean more into translucence and magnetism that ever before, oozing positive energy and vibrant sonic ideals. The colour-laden project sees collaborations with Dev Lemons and MKULTRA, and boasts production from 070 Sebastian and SpaceKing, amongst others.
We sat down with the self described psychedelic indie space cowgirl, who walked us through the stunning new album, track by track.
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Read the album breakdown below…
“Little Town”
A main theme of this album is learning to ground myself. So, I started the project off with a song about literally coming down to earth. “Little town on the ground, tell them I’m coming down,” I sing, referring to our planet as a little town inside our massive Universe. I used to write songs about wanting to be alone in space – now that I’m older, I’ve developed a new love for the people around me and I want to stop isolating myself. This song is my way of expressing that.
This album, on a larger scale, tells a story of growing up. Little Town represents the very beginning; coming down to earth and being born.
“Learn My Name”
Now that I’ve come down to earth with the first track, It’s time to learn who I am and what it means to be alive! Learn My Name is not just about other people learning my name, it’s about me learning my own. “Kinneret” translates to “harp” in biblical hebrew, and I’ve dedicated my life to music. My name is my purpose and this song is all about discovering that.
In the story of the album, this track represents childhood: Learning my name, being curious, discovering what it means to be me.
“Where’s The Forest?”
Ever since I met MKULTRA, the screaming feature on this track, we knew we could make something crazy with each other. Our sounds are certainly different, but if you listen to our lyrics, you’ll hear that we share similar sentiments. Both of us see deep issues in our society; I approach it with whimsical melodies, and he approaches it with violent yelling. We were destined to join forces.
When MK was in town, I invited him to my home studio and we made a beat from scratch, tapping into our shared love for spacey synths and trap drums. Brainstorming song topics, we decided to write about climate change and the state of the planet. We created a whole story: I would be an alien-girl who just arrived on Earth, looking for the forests everyone told her about. MKULTRA would play The Man, obsessed with money and power, polluting the planet and killing the forests. Who wins? You’ll have to listen and tell me.
In context with the rest of the album, this song represents adolescence – the time of life where our child’s eye gets crushed by the truth. The time we start to angry.
“Blades Of Grass”
Following an aggressive, jarring song about the state of the world, Blades of Grass comes in to cool us down. Nature is the ultimate source of healing, and this song is essentially a nature prayer. “Every morning I awaken, sun is waiting for me. And in the night when I lay down, wrapped in a nightgown, I’m holy. Must remember that I’m holy,” I sing, reminding myself of what’s really important. I spent most of my teenage years being angry at the world, only seeing the bad and ignoring the beautiful. I was so caught up in the details of my life that I would forget to pause and look at the bigger picture: how I am organic matter, born from the Earth and eventually returning to it.
Both features on the song are good friends of mine – people who remind me to pause and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
This song and the rest on the album represent my current place in life: 20 years old, learning what it means to follow my own path and find my place in the world.
“Soon You’re Gonna Know”
Now that I’ve learned to take a step back and appreciate life, I’ve also learned to appreciate myself and all that I have to offer. This song is a message to my younger self, who wasn’t nearly as confident. “Soon you’re gonna know who you really are, you won’t put on a show,” I tell her, remembering a time I would try to be anything but myself. I had no idea how much power and potential my uniqueness gave me. If only my younger self knew who she’d become: a full-time artist sharing her heart with the world!
This song is my way of speaking to my younger self, and to anyone else who’s in the same difficult place. I sing, “many years ago, we were all inside a star… ‘til we had to explode!” Before I knew my potential, I was like the Universe before the big bang; a star, desperate to explode. I’m so glad that I exploded into who I am today.
“BIG TORNADO”
I wrote this song after a period of writer’s block. I had lost my magic for a couple months, and then I tried a new approach: simply telling myself that I don’t have writer’s block. Suddenly, the words came flowing out. All I had to do was believe! So, I started writing a song all about that: the power of belief. Sometimes, all it takes is convincing yourself that you can do something, and you’ll do it. Athletes know it, monks know it, former addicts know it… believing in one’s self is one of our greatest human techniques. I struggle with pretty frequent anxiety, which is the “big tornado” I refer to in the song. Most of the time I just need to remind myself that it’s all in my head… the weather’s totally fine.
“Wizardry!”
Continuing the themes of Big Tornado, Wizardry is about manifestation. Over the past few years I’ve realized that I have the power to manifest my own reality, just like a wizard. All the best things in my life have started with me believing that they could happen. When I decided that I deserve a loving partner, I found one. When I decided that my music is worth sharing with the world, people found it and resonated with it. When I decided that life is beautiful, it became beautiful. Step one was always believing.
This song itself was a product of this mindset: I reached out to 070 Sebastian, a producer and member of 070 Shake’s creative collective, hoping to make a song with him. We had never met, but I messaged him completely out of the blue because I truly believed he’d connect with my music and want to work. That’s exactly what happened! We got in the studio and he started playing a trippy synth melody, and I started writing about the magic of the whole thing.
“Vienna Sunday Night”
I wrote Vienna Sunday Night in Vienna, on a Sunday night. It felt right to title the song like that because the dreamy bells and trippy melodies kind of make me feel like I’ve lost track of time. I titled it with a time and place to keep it documented.
Vienna Sunday Night is a love song, among other things. It’s about finding someone who makes you feel safe and relaxed – a quality that we often forget to look for. During our stay in Amsterdam, a side-quest of our Vienna trip, my partner and I had encounters that felt suspicious and unsafe – “I don’t trust these kids, you don’t trust them either, two of us together makes it so much clearer.” Being there with him, looking out for each other, made me feel more at peace.
It’s hard for me to talk about this song’s meaning because it has a psychedelic element that I can’t quite put to words. I’d rather people just listen and feel what they feel!
“Volcanic Rock”
Following the themes of Vienna Sunday Night, Volcanic Rock is about the beauty of partnership. This song is also hard for me to dive into because it’s about my personal relationship, but I believe that the sentiments are universal. I sing about the balance between lovers, feeling like we are most powerful when we join forces and work together. When I have my head in the clouds, he makes sure we stay focused. When he gets too fixated on tasks, I make sure we step back and look at the birds.
“All That I Know (Focus Track)”
Every message of every song on this album builds up to this title track: All That I Know. Everything I’ve learned, throughout my entire life, in one song. The reason I was able to fit everything I’ve ever known in these four and a half minutes is because the truth is, I don’t really know anything.
I’ve collected all these beliefs and morals that I sing about in all my songs: nature is healing, manifestation is real, love is about balance… but these will always be beliefs; moral guidelines I’ve set for myself to live a happy life. There is only one thing I know for certain: things come, and things go. That is the message of this song… “All that I know is that stars come and go.” I’ve struggled with the idea of death for my whole life. Before writing All That I Know I had a bit of a breakdown, thinking about the love I’ve felt and shared in this lifetime – with my partner, with my friends, with my music – and how I don’t want it to disappear when I die. I’m so scared of it all being for nothing. All That I Know is a prayer for love’s permanence. “I want to be yours even when the sun cannot glow,” I sing to my partner, to my listeners, to the Universe. I want my love to outlive me, and humanity, and the Earth, and the Sun.
My partner’s younger sister died two years before him and I met. While I was falling in love with him, meeting his family, listening to their stories… I felt like I was getting to know his sister through them. It’s the kind of strange thing you can’t really put to words, but you can turn into music, so that’s what the second verse of All That I Know is about. “There was a star that left before I even got to know her… guess she had some place to be. But in my heart I know that we have met before; I am part of her and she is part of me.” I truly believe that we are all part of one being, and that brings me comfort regarding death, because it means that I will always be alive through the people around me.
I wrap up the song with a toast to the unknown: “so let’s raise a glass to every constellation with a missing piece, that our eyes can’t see. Gotta fill the gaps with our imagination, ‘til the light arrives and we all agree.”
Death is what gives life a beating heart. If I knew I’d live forever, I’d feel no rush to write and release a song today. I don’t know much, but I know that things come and go, and I want to feel love and sing songs and gaze at the stars while I know I can.