Madeline Kenney‘s Kiss from the Balcony, a new chapter of collaboration and expanded sound

Now, Kenney is entering a new chapter with her forthcoming album, Kiss from the Balcony, set to drop July 18 via Carpark Records. The record came together during two immersive weeks in Oakland alongside collaborators Ben Sloan and Stephen Patota. With Sloan bringing experimental percussion and Patota layering in striking guitar work, the trio shaped something that moves beyond Kenney’s past work, both sonically and emotionally. It’s an album born from trust, expansion, and the need to let ideas breathe outside the confines of her home studio.

The first taste of that new direction arrives in the form of “All I Need,” a song that feels both intimate and otherworldly. Lush, spacious, and emotionally honest, the pastoral track, perfect for spring, captures that gentle ache of imagined love: a soft place to land at the end of a long day. Kenney describes it as “trying to create something perfect and soft and yet realistic.” It’s a shimmering invitation to feel deeply, to believe in connection, and to blow a kiss into the universe, even when it feels wild to do so. The accompanying video was directed by Jimmy Whispers.