Kimmortal is back with the soulful, jazzy, soul-searching single "I Just Wanna Know," which led the way for a newly released EP grounded in introspection, community, and liberation. The song is a love letter that meets existential musing, an arresting foray into the nuances of existence that only Kimmortal could produce. A proud queer Filipinx voice from unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Kimmortal reimagines a world where the weird, queer, brave, different, and beautiful are celebrated. On "I Just Wanna Know," they lean hard toward their multi-disciplinary creativity.
The song is a vessel for group magic, the product of imagination and effort coming together between close friends and drummer Miles Wong. Matt Yang's keys and Feven Kidane's horn sections add jazzy flourishes to the song, on which Kimmortal manages to float between spoken word into melodic crooning, with lyrical trading reminiscent of influences like Common's Be and Jill Scott's golden-era soul. "I Just Wanna Know" is a meditation on the strange beauty of existing in the now, loving, grieving, and creating in a moment that feels like the world is coming apart. Melancholy is folded into every beat, but it is never overpowering. Instead, the track is a warm room where questions can comfortably be asked without requiring answers.
Kimmortal discusses grief in its personal and collective form and the search for joy again through art and community. This song is a to-do, a meditation, a healing ritual. By making their bandmates the center of this story and tapping into ancestral and personal wisdom, Kimmortal again demonstrates that they are vessels for connection. "Just Wanna Know" becomes the question, echoing in the headlong. In an era when meaning can feel challenging, Kimmortal presents something hearteningly real. This is a soul checkpoint.
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