This Is The Kit reveal plans for seventh album, Ghost Coat

Ghost Coat follows This Is The Kit's 2023 album Careful of Your Keepers, with "Skim A Stone" landing as the first introduction to the collection of songs, alongside a music video directed by Stewart Baxter. Discussing the inspiration behind the track, bandleader Kate Stables says: "What are the things that we wish on? An eyelash? More than three skims of a stone? What magical thinking do we employ in the hope that things will be ok and go our way." Recorded at Rockfield Studios in the Wye Valley, south-east Wales, Ghost Coat features a host of collaborators including Richard Dawson, Sam Amidon, Ben Howard, guitarist brothers Valentin and Marceau Portron of Portron Portron Lopez, and Emma Broughton AKA Blumi. "I was really keen to not only ask people to sing on the album, but to make sure that you can hear their individual voices," Stables explains. "When you hear the voice of someone that means a lot to you, it can destroy you (in a good way) or can make you feel amazing. It makes me happy hearing all the voices, especially because of the themes of friendship." The album delves deeper into themes of human connection, loneliness, solitude and isolation, as well as the concept home, ...