Kat Kikta releases “Was It Almost Love?”

Kat Kikta is a London-based artist who’s been exploring the fringes of avant pop through her cinematic and fiercely original sonic lens. Operating as a producer, singer-songwriter and sound artist, her music draws from a wide array of spheres from sound healing instruments, organic textures and field recordings to electronic beats and multi-layered vocals. She presents an artistic output that shifts between song and soundscape, balancing ambient textures with pop elements and spiritual context.

It’s a world she has been shaping since her debut in 2020, marked by a steadfast musical vision and a dissection of how music can move and heal. Her official artistic entrance came with the debut single “Deja Vu,” a hypnotic and immersive outing that offered the first taste of her formula where electronic production meets found sounds and vocal layering. The next year, she expanded her catalogue with a trio of releases before taking a short pause until earlier this year when she made her return with “Cherry Trees,” reintroducing her voice with a delicate yet powerful pro-peace alternative pop pice.

Soon after, she unveiled “He Drives Me Crazy,” a reimagining of the 1988 Fine Young Cannibals classic, filtering the lively energy and bright pop bounce of the original in her own atmospheric and downtempo style. Her version slowed the tempo and unpacked the track’s emotional ideas, stripping it down to rebuild it into a deep meditation that shifted its meaning entirely.

Now, with her latest single titled “Was It Almost Love?,” Kat Kikta presents a haunting sonic avenue for those walking the path to self-love in the wake of heartbreak. With emotive vocals floating above an intricately crafted instrumental backdrop, the track glances into the turmoil of a relationship that ends without closure using lyrical imagery to capture the experience of a partner keeping distance, leaving the narrator in limbo, trapped in questions of whether the connection was ever real.

Brought in by Kat’s hushed whispered vocals which sit on a hazy wave of soft instrumental textures, she casts an enchanting scene of intimate aesthetic as her voice gently delivers tender melodies. With the downtempo patter of percussion and sweeping tones of stretched backing vocalisations, the song drifts through a dreamy scene of transportive alternative pop, offering a truly spellbinding listening experience from start to finish.

Mesmeric and highly unique, “Was It Almost Love?” sees Kat Kikta delivers an emotive and utterly engrossing sound that’s tender and ethereal throughout yet tinged with a subtle sense of unease. Once again putting her groundbreaking musical vision on full display, Kat Kikta offers an incredible musical moment unlike any other.

On the new single, she comments, “At the centre of the song is this moment where you realise you don’t need someone else to feel love or to define your own sense of worth. It is a song for anyone who’s been broken hearted, ghosted, and left wondering if that’s all they deserve in this life? We’re not meant to die with an ending of a relationships – but sometimes it feels that way. I wish this song brings hope, illumination and conclusion to those relationships which didn’t get a closure.”

Listen to Was It Almost Love? below

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