For those who aren’t in the know (you’ll thank me later), here’s a quick PSA: Kai Whiston’s Twitter feed is an underrated gem. When he’s not trolling boomers that moan about mumble rap or announcing he has no new announcements, he’s toying with fans by suggesting his next project would be pushed to 2021. His reason? He’d won £80,000 playing online bingo.
album to be pushed back into 2021. Not too concerned with Electro acoustic music since i won 80k online bingo
— Kai Whiston (@kaiwhiston) May 13, 2020
Fortunately for us, this turned out to be (surprise surprise) a red herring. The Bristol-based artist posted an abstract screenshot from a TikTok video yesterday, explaining that this accidental photo he had taken last August had inadvertently become the “creative starting point” for his next album, which he aims to release later this year.
last august this accidental tiktok screenshot of a bedroom wall became the creative starting point for my next album
the working title is ‘Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.’ & i’ll try and put it out this year
— Kai Whiston (@kaiwhiston) May 17, 2020
The post also stated that the working title for the album is ‘Quiet as Kept, F.O.G.’. In a photo reply he left below the original picture shortly after, Whiston revealed a private SoundCloud playlist of eleven tracks with their names and release date obscured, before asking fans what guest vocalists and producers they would like to see appear on the project.
i’m opening up to more vocal guests and producers on this one . who would u wanna see on this ? pic.twitter.com/xswdnUEjWd — Kai Whiston (@kaiwhiston) May 17, 2020
If Quiet as Kept… does see the light of day in 2020, it will be Whiston’s first studio album since last November’s No World As Good As Mine. He’d be forgiven for taking the time off though; the young producer’s been busy in recent months. Aside from NWAGAM, September saw him release XYZ as a member of the Gloo collective, a trio of electronic musicians that includes fellow Brits Iglooghost and BABii (who recently performed a virtual b3b set in Minecraft).
In the meantime, if you’re desperate for some more deconstructed club to compliment your deconstructed routine, Whiston put out a collection of nearly 150 of his samples on Bandcamp at the start of May. Preview the compilation via the embed below:
