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Jun 26, 2025 By Issa Nasatir Photography by Laura Moreau

Oakland’s Madeline Kenney has released the third single, “Semitones,” ahead of her new album Kiss From the Balcony, which is due out July 18 via Carpark. Check out the music video for “Semitones” below.

Kiss From the Balcony will be Kenney’s fifth full-length LP and her first since A New Reality Mind in 2023. “Semitones” follows the first two singles ahead of Kiss From the Balcony, “Scoop” and “All I Need.”

Kenney says on the track in a press release, “You ever start to dread someone instead of love them? What a nauseating feeling. This is about trust landsliding into mistrust. I’ve spent the past few years really learning to trust my own mind, however—rather than others’. I like that the chorus sounds melodically hopeful, which I am. But the verses are intentionally dark and dramatic—it feels like a reflection of the psychic journey I’ve been on.”

On the new album, Kenney says: “I have done a lot of healing work in the last few years. I trust myself and the world a little more every day. I don’t feel the need to turn my songs into my diary. These songs feel more like miniature meditations on small moments.”

“Scoop” and “All I Need” both made our Songs of the Week lists.

Read our 2021 interview with Madeline Kenney.

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