{"id":1973754,"date":"2025-08-22T04:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1973754"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:35:22","slug":"ruel-announces-second-album-drops-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ruel-announces-second-album-drops-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruel Announces Second Album, Drops New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tonedeaf.thebrag.com\/?s=ruel\" target=\"_blank\">Ruel<\/a> is releasing his second album this year.<\/p>\n<p>Announced today, the highly anticipated <em>Kicking My Feet <\/em>is\u00a0set to arrive on Friday, October 17th via Recess Records and Virgin Music Group.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement arrives alongside Ruel\u2019s latest single \u201cThe Suburbs\u201d, a dreamy pop offering that showcases the Australian artist\u2019s evolving sound (listen below).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Suburbs\u201d represents a significant step forward for Ruel, crafted with an impressive roster of collaborators including Fran Hall (who has worked with Charli XCX and Kelly Clarkson), M-Phazes, Chelsea Lena, and Elias Danielsen.<\/p>\n<p>The track explores themes of intimacy and domestic bliss, with Ruel singing about envisioning a simpler life in suburban paradise with someone special.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Suburbs\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4xjh3S26biJGSw8WMPHlkw?si=S4i6Znx9StO5SRAF3sS0kw&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>The single builds upon the momentum generated by \u201cI Can Die Now\u201d, released just a month prior. That track made a striking debut in New York\u2019s Times Square on MTV and quickly amassed over a million streams within days. The track earned widespread critical acclaim, with <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> praising its \u201cpropulsive bass line\u201d and \u201cthudding percussion\u201d whilst noting how it captures \u201can all-encompassing love\u201d that hints at the sonic direction of the forthcoming album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Kicking My Feet<\/em> marks Ruel\u2019s transition from Sydney to Los Angeles and his signing with Giant Music.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s creation process was notably extensive, with Ruel revealing he crafted over 200 songs before finalising the tracklist.<\/p>\n<p>Ruel collaborated with some of the industry\u2019s most respected producers for the project, including Julian Bunetta, who has worked with Sabrina Carpenter and One Direction, and Joel Little, known for his contributions to Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams\u2019 catalogues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty daunting to offer up this level of honesty in my songwriting but seeing the way it\u2019s already connected so personally with fans has calmed my \u2018pre-album\u2019 nerves in a huge way,\u201d Ruel says.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ruel\u2019s \u201cThe Suburbs\u201d is out now. Kicking My Feet is out Friday, October 17th via Recess Records \/ Virgin Music Group (pre-order\/pre-save <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/found.ee\/KMF\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruel is releasing his second album this year. Announced today, the highly anticipated Kicking My Feet is\u00a0set to arrive on Friday, October 17th via Recess Records and Virgin Music Group. The announcement arrives alongside Ruel\u2019s latest single \u201cThe Suburbs\u201d, a dreamy pop offering that showcases the Australian artist\u2019s evolving sound (listen below). \u201cThe Suburbs\u201d represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[351975,351976,351977,351978],"class_list":["post-1973754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-kicking-my-feet","tag-ruel","tag-ruel-album","tag-ruel-single"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ruel-Announces-Second-Album-Drops-New-Single.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}