October, 2017 RollingStoneAus.com | Rolling Stone | 47SOUNDS LIKE:A manifesto on
millennial femininity that includes
genre agnosticism as one of its
key tenets
FOR FANS OF: Tori Amos, late-
career Charlotte Church, Simone
de Beauvoir
WHY YOU SHOULD PAY AT-
TENTION: Discovered by Kanye
West when she was a member
of the dance troupe backing him
up on his Yeezus tour, Arizona
native Kacy Hill fi rst made waves
with the 2015 EP Bloo. Her just-
released debut LP Like a Woman,
which West executive produced,is a dizzying ride through early-
20s womanhood that has arena-
ready choruses and minimalist
electro, confessional poetry and
resolute kiss-off s. Production
comes courtesy of DJ Mustard,
synth-popper Stuart Price and
more. She’s planning a tour, but
she’s already thinking about
where her art might take her
next: “I just want to keep putting
out as much stuff as possible,”
she says. “Ideally, I would like
to have another body of work –
even just a smaller body of work- out in at least a few months.”
SHE SAYS:“Growing up, I was
into a lot of stuff that doesn't re-
ally directly infl uence the album. I
listened to a lot of Nineties alter-
native – things like the Cranber-
ries, Third Eye Blind, that whole
world. Then I think I got really
into folk and singer-songwriter-y
stuff , like Regina Spektor and
Laura Marling. It’s been a lot of
everything. I don’t have one spe-
cifi c infl uence that I was looking
toward; the whole thing was just
really a discovery process.
“I spent a lot of time going
in with diff erent producers tofi gure out what worked and
what didn't. I think writing this
album, I was really just fi guring
out how to write songs, honestly.
I had this pride where I felt like
other people couldn’t write
songs for me, that I needed to
write everything. Part of that was
establishing myself with myself.
Now that I’ve done that, I feel like
I’ve proven to myself, ‘I can fi nish
something. I can do this.’”
HEAR FOR YOURSELF: The
Price-produced “Hard to Love”
is a synth-pop anthem featuring
Hill's lithe soprano.MAURA JOHNSTONKacy Hill