Ruby Gill annouces new album Some Kind Of Control & shares new single 'Touch Me There', a coming out anthem

Joburg-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based pianist, guitarist and singer-songwriter Ruby Gill (she/they) announces her second album Some Kind of Control released March 28, alongside the bold and anthemic sensual awakening that is her new single and video ‘Touch Me There’. Also featuring the eponymous lead single released in November, Some Kind of Control peels back Gill’s remaining layers to reveal a searingly intimate, body-focused, yet globally-relevant sophomore that’s “cheekier, looser, gayer and even more raw”; a powerful set of songs-as-explorations about control over her body, her queerness and her politic, reflecting a witty assuredness and unflinching honesty that can only come with time and a dedication to going to the end of every feeling.

‘Touch Me There’ is, simply put, Ruby Gill’s “most special creation”, marking the moment she came out to herself, finally silencing “the devil that sits on my shoulder, who tries to convince me that I am an angel”. Written on a riverbank with the intention of nobody ever hearing it, Gill’s vocals float along a quietly rambling guitar in a piercing self-examination of the things that had been holding her back from experiencing the kind of intimacy she wanted, building towards the freeing admission that “I haven’t been kissing the people I want to”, echoed by a backing vocal choir of her treasured found family: Annie-Rose Maloney, Hannah McKittrick, Angie McMahon, Hannah Cameron, Jess Ellwood and Olivia Hally (Oh Pep!). Its empowering music video, directed by Bridgette Winten (Maple Glider, Angie McMahon, Winten) and shot on analog film at Naarm’s iconic queer workout and community space Pony Club Gym, echoes the song’s sense of physical and emotional intimacy and strength in queer identity, featuring a cast of lesbian, female, trans and non-binary people working out in order “to celebrate the bodies we’re in and the resistance it is to be queer – we wanted [the video] to feel sexy, but also make you cry. That is my favourite type of intimacy”

Of the song, Ruby Gill says, “During the longest dry spell of my life, I came out to myself. The first time I said it out loud was in this song – all that sitting by a river waiting for the truth to come out led to me being honest for the first time about who I was attracted to and what kind of sex I wanted in my life. It took almost two years of zero kissing to get to that point of self-knowledge. Not intentionally, haha – everything just felt so wrong and scary after being touched in really unsafe ways before that. I was numb for years, but I finally felt sensation in my body again after writing Touch Me There. It broke me open. I hope it breaks other people open too, whether it’s about queerness or otherwise. You have a say over your love and pleasure”.

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