K.Flay Appears on the Soundtrack for Netflix Film Nimona

“T-Rex” Out Now – Listen [HERE]

LA based two-time GRAMMY Award-nominated multiplatinum songwriter, producer and artist K.Flay‘s (real name Kristine Flaherty) song “T-Rex” has been featured on the soundtrack for the 2023 animated film Nimona. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Nimona is about a knight who is framed for a crime he did not commit and a shape-shifting teenager who teams up with him to prove his innocence. Premiering on Netflix on June 30th and starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed, the film has been praised for its normalized depiction of two of its LGBTQ+ main characters.

“T-Rex” was written specifically for Nimona and was featured in the official teaser for the film (watch HERE) as well as the closing credits. K.Flay spoke to ABC Audio about the personal connection she has to “T-Rex,” revealing that it was the first song she listened to after going deaf in her right ear in 2022.

“I had written this song prior to the ear,” Flaherty explains. “Then they were like, ‘Hey, we have to finish the movie, do you approve this mix?’ And I kept putting it off, I was like, ‘I don’t wanna listen to this.'”

When Flaherty eventually did give “T-Rex” a listen, it was a “very emotional” experience.

“I shed a few tears, and was like, ‘OK! I guess I’m doing this again,'” she says. “It opened the floodgates.”

K.Flay also announced the news of her new full-length studio album MONO last month, which is due out September 15th via GIANT Music. Along with the album announcement, K.Flay dropped “Shy,” the second single and video from the forthcoming LP – listen to the electrifying track HERE and watch the official music video HERE.

“Shy” follows the previously released and riveting lead single “Raw Raw,” which currently has more than 1 million streams and sits at No. 33 on the alternative radio chart.

Back in summer 2022, K.Flay headed to Tanzania and spent a week climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, fulfilling a bucket-list ambition she’d scrawled in her journal seven years earlier. Within a week of returning home to Los Angeles, she woke up one morning with total hearing loss in her right ear—a freak occurrence her doctors deemed permanent, leading her to question whether she’d ever make music again. But soon after returning to the studio and resuming work on her fifth full-length, K.Flay found her sense of purpose profoundly renewed and, in a matter of months, created what she considers to be her most experimental and realized studio album to date. In addition to “Shy” and “Raw Raw,” other noteworthy songs on the 14-track MONO include the the sharp-witted intro piece “Are You Serious?,” the album’s heaviest track “Irish Goodbye” featuring Pierce The Veil’s Vic Fuentes and the giddy free-for-all “Spaghetti” featuring indie-rock trio Kid Sistr. You can see K.Flay on tour in the US and UK this year – all confirmed dates are below!

US Tour Dates
August 9 @ State Theatre in Portland, ME
August 10 @ Higher Ground in South Burlington, VT
August 11 @ Empire Live in Albany, NY
August 12 @ Outer Harbor in Buffalo, NY

UK / EU Tour Dates
Sept 20 @ Hybrydy in Warsaw, Poland
Sept 22 @ Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany
Sept 23 @ Melkweg MAX in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sept 25 @ Meetfactory in Prague, Czech Republic
Sept 26 @ Luxor in Cologne, Germany
Sept 28 @ Flex in Vienna, Austria
Sept 29 @ Heimathafen in Berlin, Germany
Oct 2 @ Gorilla in Manchester, UK
Oct 3 @ Brixton Electric in London, UK

MONO (Track Listing)
1 – Are You Serious?
2 – Carsick
3 – Raw Raw
4 – Punisher
5 – Irish Goodbye (feat. Vic Fuentes Of Pierce The Veil)
6 – Hustler
7 – Spaghetti (feat. Kid Sistr)
8 – Bar Soap
9 – Watch Me Pt. 1
10 – In America
11 – Shy
12 – Watch Me Pt. 2
13 – Chaos Is Love
14 – Yes I’m Serious
15 – Perfectly Alone

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