KIER Shares New Single 'Twenty Something'
More than 80 live shows in 2025 alone. At the same time, KIER was making her second record between Camden and Newark.
The Yorkshire songwriter has done all of this independently, over three years, one room and one audience at a time. She has appeared at Tramlines Festival and at C2C London. She has played support slots with artists including Lucy Spraggan, and BBC Radio 1 has backed her along the way. None of it arrived overnight, and that steadiness is part of what makes her worth hearing about now.
Then there was the debut. 'Welcome To The Strange Life' put KIER in the Top Three on iTunes alongside Hozier and Sam Fender, which is remarkable company for a record made without a major behind it. It was storytelling that got her there, and it announced a writer who cares about the small particulars of a life and knows how to set them down so other people recognise their own.
'Twenty Something' came out on 25 September 2026 and is out now. It is the second single from her upcoming second record, and it finds her leaning away from the UK country and Americana scene where she made her name and further into songwriter pop. This time the story is one that a great many people are living through quietly: the strange in between stretch of your twenties, when everyone around you seems to be moving on to the next thing and you are still working out where you fit.
What I like most about it is how plainly it admits to that. The song takes that gap seriously without becoming heavy about it. There is humour in it, and a conversational ease, as though she is talking it through with a friend rather than delivering a verdict on a generation. It is a song for anyone who expected adulthood to feel more certain than it does, and it is generous enough to let everyone else in too.
There is something quietly moving about the fact that a song about feeling as if you are falling behind should come from someone who spent a single year playing more than 80 shows while building a new record. Milestones arrive at different times for different people. You do not need to know any of that to enjoy the single, but knowing it gives the song a warmth that sits under every line.
For listeners meeting her for the first time, 'Twenty Something' is a good place to begin, because it shows both where she has come from and where she is heading. Her second record is due to be officially announced in early 2027, and on the strength of this, I will be listening for it.
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