current obsessions ~ vol. 6
sweaty, sexy, and silly. flirting in song form.
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Kiri ~ I Like It
There’s a moment in Kiri’s new single, I Like It, where something shifts. The beat sinks a little deeper, her vocals lean in, and suddenly you’re not just listening — you’re inside it. Enveloped. It’s smooth, low-lit, and quietly electric, like the flicker of recognition when you catch your own reflection in a shop window and remember who the fuck you are.
After a year of writing in rural Australia, Kiri — singer, songwriter, and producer — has re-emerged in Naarm with what she describes as a “fresh, more playful sound — exploring love, intimacy, and yearning.” I Like It is the sumptuous first glimpse of her upcoming project, This Feeling Forever.
“It’s a bit sexy and a bit silly,” she tells me. “Sonically, it sits somewhere between Sade and Destiny’s Child — a groove-focused, fun and playful little ditty.” The sensual R&B vibes are so evocative of a particular moment in my youth, it almost feels like stumbling across a hidden track on a mixtape I already loved — familiar in the best, most nostalgic way.
That playfulness runs deep, opening slow and sensual, like floating just beneath the ocean's surface, before slipping into a slinky, low-slung rhythm that feels humid and hypnotic. Plush harmonies, drippy percussion, bass lines that sway like hips at 2 am — it’s rich and textured, but more than that, it’s pleasurable. Steady, confident, unbothered.
The power of I Like It lies in its tension between softness and assertion, doubt and desire, the one doing the wanting and the one being wanted. Written in the aftermath of a messy, shifting relationship, the first lyric Kiri wrote — tonight, you might want… me? — came from what she describes as a place of self-pity, even self-disgust. But instead of spiralling, she wrote herself out of it: a practice of listing every moment she’d ever felt loveable, desirable, enough. The result is her most lyrically assured track to date — a winking, radiant reclamation of self.
Co-produced with Bblzebub, the single marks a shift from the pared-back intimacy of her 2021 self-titled EP — a collection defined by ambient minimalism, acoustic moments, and gentle introspection. I Like It moves differently. There’s still a tender edge, but it now moves with purpose — an energy shaped by experience, gliding forward with a grounded knowing. It’s like slipping into something sheer — not to be seen, but because it feels good.
I Like It doesn’t demand attention. It already knows it’s hot. And by the time the rhythm has settled under your skin and the harmonies are looping through your chest, you might feel a little more charged. A little more at home in your body. A little more ready to flirt with the world again.
I like it. I really, really like it.
To celebrate her latest single, I Like It, Kiri is playing two exclusive shows:
Eora/Sydney — Friday 16 May (with Tesse and Harnit)
Naarm/Melbourne — Friday 31 May (with Romaeo and Will Edgar)
Get silly. Get sexy. Have a boogie.
Find all Kiri’s links here.
