Oakland-born artist King Isis is unclassifiable. Their music defies genres and finds inspiration in the most unexpected spaces.
Their upcoming EP SHED is inspired by their undergraduate studies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s seminal text Borderlands/La Frontera. As a non-binary, queer person, King Isis found themselves in Gloria’s words which examine the snake as a metaphor for both the deviant feminine and a physical representation of what it might look like to effectively process personal history.
Like a snake sheds its skin, the EP is a cathartic release of a past that no longer serves them and a rebirth for a brighter future that awaits.
That future includes joining Mehro’s The Reason to Live Tour. In 18 cities, King Isis will play acoustic stripped-back sets that feature their previous EP scales, as well as selections from SHED.
Get tickets for The Reason to Live Tour, here.
See some moments from the Boston show at The Middle East Upstairs below:
