Track is from forthcoming album
KT Tunstall has released her newest single, “Private Eyes.” The pop-driven tune that highlights the vagaries of fame is culled from Tunstall’s upcoming seventh studio album, Nut, which will be available on September 9th via her new partnership with Blue Élan Records.
“Private Eyes,” was co-written with long time friend and collaborator TommyD, and recounts a surreal celebrity encounter at a party early in Tunstall’s career.
“Early on after my big success, I would dip my toe into accepting invites to random parties. At one party in a little club in Soho, London, a beautiful actress – who I didn’t know personally – in a big puffball gown, grabbed my hand and pulled me down the stairs into the basement kitchen in a panic. She was terrified of the paparazzi stalking her outside – she couldn’t face them,” Tunstall shares. “Mascara was running down her face as she had a meltdown on the floor. I had to break it to her, there was no door down here; the only way out was back up. But I remember through my own boozy haze how tragic it seemed that this person had so craved a life that had now felt like a prison. Beautiful eyes that didn’t want everyone looking into them.”
Nut is the last in a trilogy of albums she began recording and releasing in 2016 with Kin. Each part of the trilogy relates to the three existential parts of ourselves: Kin = Spirit, Wax = Body, and now Nut = Mind.
