Ruel Shares Third Single ‘Wild Guess’ Ahead of Sophomore Album ‘Kicking My Feet’
Kicking My Feet arrives Friday 17 October via Recess Records/Virgin Music Group.
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Vocal powerhouse Ruel has shared intimate new track ‘Wild Guess’, the third single taken from the Sydney-born artist’s hotly anticipated sophomore album Kicking My Feet, which arrives Friday 17 October via Recess Records/Virgin Music Group (pre-order/pre-save here).
Following the previously released tracks ‘I Can Die Now’ and ‘The Suburbs’, Ruel’s latest was co-written with acclaimed songwriters Leroy Clampitt (Justin Bieber, Madison Beer) and Dan Wilson (Adele, Taylor Swift). Crooning about lost love, Ruel’s vocals float over the soft instrumentation on this fab single.
Kicking My Feet features collaborations with a host of top notch prodcuers, inclduing Julian Bunetta (Sabrina Carpenter, One Direction), Joel Little (Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams), Kenny Beats (Dominic Fike, Ed Sheeran), Dan Wilson (Adele, Taylor Swift, Chris Stapleton) and longtime collaborator M-Phazes (Eminem, Kehlani, Ruel’s debut album).
“It’s been pretty daunting to offer up this level of honesty in my songwriting but seeing the way it’s already connected so personally with fans has calmed my ‘pre-album’ nerves in a huge way,” Ruel said in a press statement about the album.
“I knew I wanted to push myself on this new album, but it wasn’t until I had to finalise the track list that I realised I’d actually made over 200 songs for Kicking My Feet.
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The release of Kicking My Feet ushers in a new chapter for Ruel, who has moved from Sydney to Los Angeles and signed with Giant Music.
After breaking through in 2017 with his debut single, ‘Golden Years’, the singer-songwriter dropped three well-received EPs – Ready (2018), Free Time (2019) and Bright Lights, Red Eyes (2020) – before releasing his highly anticipated 2023 debut studio album, 4th Wall.
Ahead of this year’s Kicking My Feet, Ruel shared the 2024 covers EP Adaptations, which included his take on songs by Sixpence None the Richer, Miley Cyrus, The Weeknd and more.
‘Wild Guess’ by Ruel is out now. Kicking My Feet arrives Friday 17 October via Recess Records/Virgin Music Group. Pre-order/pre-save here.
