Kids With Buns is back with brand new single ‘blind’

Kids With Buns is back! With two freshly broken hearts, they headed to Philadelphia to do what they do best: write it all down. The result: the new single “blind,” because the best songs are written when everything collapses.

After Amber and Marie (coincidentally) ended long-term relationships at the same time, they started working on a new album in the US with producer Jacob Blizard (Lucy Dacus, also known from boygenius). With “blind,” Kids With Buns open the door to a sound that knows even fewer boundaries than before: because in KWB 2.0, anything is possible. Their signature catchy hooks and guitar riffs sound more international than ever, with boygenius-esque vocal harmonies and lyrics you’ll want (and need) to read twice. In the song, they reflect on their first true love and the moment that illusion is shattered, with the realization that staying in a relationship sometimes destroys more than letting go of it.

The long-awaited second album will follow in the fall. Kids With Buns‘ most personal and profound work to date: an honest account of the turbulent period after their simultaneous breakups, full of nights out, heartbreak, and how Marie & Amber kept each other afloat. They will be presenting this album on a release tour, with dates in Germany, the Netherlands, and the main hall of the Ancienne Belgique. With a rock-solid live reputation built after their appearance on Liefde Voor Muziek and packed shows at Viernulvier and OLT Rivierenhof, this tour promises to be their biggest yet.

Kids With Buns On Tour
11/11 Musikbunker, Aachen DE
12/11 Nochtwache, Hamburg DE
13/11 LARK, Berlin DE
27/11 Gaskessel, Bern CH
28/11 Albani, Winterthur CH
02/12 LantarenVenster, Rotterdam NL
03/12 Doornroosje, Nijmegen NL
06/12 Mezz, Breda NL
07/12 Bitterzoet, Amsterdam NL
09/12 Ancienne Belgique, Brussel BE

Info & tickets: https://www.kidswithbuns.be/tour

It’s been six years since Marie Van Uytvanck and Amber Piddington first shared a stage together during the 2019 Sound Track preliminaries. What initially had been intended as a temporary solution  (Marie’s guitarist had called in sick) worked out so well that the two of them decided to form the band Kids With Buns, after the Gorillaz song ‘Kids with Guns’. The music they made together – wistful bedroom pop songs about matters of the heart – caught on. First singles “1712” and “Bad Grades” quickly gained traction, in January 2021 they won Studio Brussel’s talent competition De Nieuwe Lichting. In the meantime they released their debut album “Out of Place” and did an excessive tour, both domestic and international. To top it off they also participated to popular television programs such as VTM’s ‘Liefde Voor Muziek’ and VRT 1 ‘Ik Vraag het Aan’.