Willaris. K Releases Debut Album 'Everything Is As It Should Be' Archives

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Naarm based producer Willaris. K today shares his long-awaited, immersive debut album, Everything Is As It Should Be.

The much-anticipated debut album marks a new chapter for Willaris. K. Everything Is As It Should Be maintains the brooding, pulsating energy that first brought him critical acclaim, while navigating intricate and hard-won emotional highs and lows.

For many years, Willaris. K’s (Jack McAllister) debut album was going to be something else entirely, but when his world began collapsing around him, he was forced to change course. Having always been ‘an emotional, sensitive person,’ it took crafting an album-length project and doing the hard, introspective work in the process, to clock that the heaviness in his music was the articulation he has been bottling up.

New single In Retrospect is one of the softest and most beautiful moments on the album. It was one of the songs that was quickest to finish, with most of the track recorded during one sunset session at Willaris. K’s AirBnb studio in Mount Tambourine, just outside of the Gold Coast.

“This album is and was me spending a lot of time finding peace and that creative space driven purely on instincts and feeling. All I wanted is for it to be true to me and I think I achieved that. Thank you to everyone that helped make it with me, supported me along the way and most importantly you people that decide to spend your time listening to it.” – Willaris. K

The album follows singles ‘Drama On The Edge’ featuring HXXD GXLD, ‘Guard’, emotive ‘I Miss You Now’ written with Chloe Kae (Kllo) & CRUSH3d, dance release ‘Backbackback’ and momentous collaboration with 17x ARIA Nominated iconic dance pioneers The Presets ‘World Collapsing’, which led to a euphoric jamesjamesjames remix. Mixed by Ewan Pearson (The Chemical Brothers, M83, Röyksopp), the highly anticipated 12-track debut album is a true masterclass in immersive and boundary-pushing electronic production.

Willaris. K also recently released track ‘Say’ with Naarm now-London producer Memphis LK and played Naarm’s Abbotsford Covent which sold out in just 48 hours. Spending summer in the UK, he played club shows across London, Galway, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast, sharing the stage with the likes of Tommy Holohan and Shampain. Earlier this year, he closed Pitch One at Pitch Music & Arts Festival playing B2B with jamesjamesjames.

After a career in music took off quicker than what he was prepared for, and bearing the emotional and creative stretch marks, McAllister had undertaken the unwinnable task of morphing himself into the on-stage character he’d created. He spent years trying to become Willaris. K, originally writing a self titled debut record without completely understanding himself. Giving up on that and taking in exactly who he saw in the mirror wasn’t giving up at all.

Once McAllister found that hard-fought peace, everything settled into place. Negative emotions and experiences were manageable. He could channel it all through art.

Everything was, is and will be just as it should be.

Willaris. K Upcoming Live Dates

Ticket details at willarisk.com/tour

16 Nov | Uni of Adelaide 150th Birthday Festival @ UniBar | Adelaide, SA

23 Nov | Torquay Hotel | Torquay, VIC

30 Nov | Sync @ Villa | Perth, WA

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Willaris. K Releases Debut Album ‘Everything Is As It Should Be’

Willaris. K Releases Debut Album ‘Everything Is As It Should Be’