Kali Uchis
Red Moon In Venus
Kali Uchis has described her new album as “a timeless, burning expression of desire, heartbreak, faith, and honesty, reflecting the divine femininity of the moon and Venus.” It includes lead single I Wish You Roses which Pitchfork’s says conjures “the lissome ethereality of soul legend Minnie Riperton, but also the low, plangent melancholy of jazz titan Sarah Vaughan.”
Red Moon In Venus is a timeless, burning expression of desire, heartbreak, faith, and honesty, reflecting the divine femininity of the moon and Venus.
The moon and Venus work together to make key aspects of love and domestic life work well.
This body of work represents all levels of love - releasing people with love, drawing love into your life and self-love. It’s believed by many astrologers that the blood moon can send your emotions into a spin, and that’s what I felt represented this body of work best."
A self-taught singer from an immigrant family, Uchis grew up between Alexandria, Virginia and Pereira, a small town in the foothills of the Colombian Andes. She first turned heads in 2012 with a 17-track mixtape she mostly wrote and recorded on her laptop the night before she uploaded it to DatPiff.
“It was really me freestyling and sampling. I didn’t think people were gonna actually listen to it.”
Red Moon in Venus contains some of those lessons of self-worth.
“Moral Conscience” could be addressed to a traitorous lover, but the song is also about Uchis healing childhood wounds—and taking comfort in cosmic retribution. (“One thing about karma—that bitch will find you,” she quips in the first few seconds.)
“Deserve Me” is deliciously petty, full of warm, orotund melodies that affirm you’re better off without the companion who made you feel alone in the first place.
Uchis didn’t become fully aware of the fact that the songs on the album shared these themes until after she wrote them. “When I looked at the entire body of work, I realized a lot of the message was centered around knowing yourself,” she says. “Love, obviously, but all the different aspects of love—whether it be releasing somebody with love, calling love into your life, or self-love.”
